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Sorang Sompeng script is used to write in Sora, a
Munda language The Munda languages are a group of closely related languages spoken by about nine million people in India and Bangladesh. Historically, they have been called the Kolarian languages. They constitute a branch of the Austroasiatic language family ...
with 300,000 speakers in
India India, officially the Republic of India (Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the so ...
. The script was created by
Mangei Gomango Mangei Gomango (16 June 1916 – 1980), popularly known as Pandita Sabara Mangei Gamango was an Indian language activist who is said to have devised the tribal language of Rayagada district. He has been awarded by Odisha Sahitya Academy. Early ...
in 1936 and is used in religious contexts. He was familiar with
Odia Odia, also spelled Oriya or Odiya, may refer to: * Odia people in Odisha, India * Odia language, an Indian language, belonging to the Indo-Aryan branch of the Indo-European language family * Odia alphabet, a writing system used for the Odia languag ...
,
Telugu Telugu may refer to: * Telugu language, a major Dravidian language of India *Telugu people, an ethno-linguistic group of India * Telugu script, used to write the Telugu language ** Telugu (Unicode block), a block of Telugu characters in Unicode S ...
and
English English usually refers to: * English language * English people English may also refer to: Peoples, culture, and language * ''English'', an adjective for something of, from, or related to England ** English national ide ...
. The
Sora language Sora is a south Munda language of the Austroasiatic language of the Sora people, an ethnic group of eastern India, mainly in the states of Odisha and Andhra Pradesh. Sora contains very little formal literature but has an abundance of folk tales ...
is also written in the Latin, Odia and Telugu scripts.Sorang Sompeng Script
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Letters

The values of the letters are as follows:


Digits


Gallery

File:Saura Script invented by Mangei Gomango.jpg, Sorang Sompeng and
Odia Odia, also spelled Oriya or Odiya, may refer to: * Odia people in Odisha, India * Odia language, an Indian language, belonging to the Indo-Aryan branch of the Indo-European language family * Odia alphabet, a writing system used for the Odia languag ...
scripts for the Sora language.


Unicode

Sorang Sompeng script was added to the
Unicode Unicode, formally The Unicode Standard,The formal version reference is is an information technology Technical standard, standard for the consistent character encoding, encoding, representation, and handling of Character (computing), text expre ...
Standard in January, 2012 with the release of version 6.1.


Block

The Unicode block for Sorang Sompeng script, called Sora Sompeng, is U+110D0–U+110FF:


Fonts

Microsoft Windows made a font called
Nirmala UI Nirmala UI is an Brahmic scripts, Indic scripts typeface created by Tiro Typeworks and commissioned by Microsoft. It was first released with Windows 8 in 2012 as a UI font and currently supports languages using Bengali–Assamese script, Bengali–A ...
, which supports Sora Sompeng. Google Noto is also making a font, called Noto Sans Sora Sompeng. Here's a beta version of it


References

Alphabets Munda scripts Writing systems introduced in 1936 Constructed scripts {{writingsystem-stub