Wancho script is an
alphabet
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created between 2001 and 2012 by middle school teacher Banwang Losu in
Longding district
Longding district (Pron:/lɒŋˈdɪŋ/) is one of the 20 administrative districts of Arunachal Pradesh in northeastern India. It was carved out of the south-western portion of the Tirap District. The district shares its boundary to the south an ...
,
Arunachal Pradesh
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for writing the
Wancho language
Wancho is a Konyak language of north-eastern India. Wancho is spoken in 36 villages of southeastern Longding district, Tirap district, Arunachal Pradesh, as well as in Assam and Nagaland (''Ethnologue''). Alternate names include
Banpara Nag ...
.
Letters represent consonants and vowels.
Conjunct consonant
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s are not used.
Tone is indicated with diacritical marks on vowel letters.
While Wancho script is taught in some schools, the Wancho language is generally written in either
Devanagari
Devanagari ( ; , , Sanskrit pronunciation: ), also called Nagari (),Kathleen Kuiper (2010), The Culture of India, New York: The Rosen Publishing Group, , page 83 is a left-to-right abugida (a type of segmental Writing systems#Segmental syste ...
script or the
Latin alphabet
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.
Unicode
Wancho script was added to the
Unicode
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Standard in March 2019 on version 12.0.
The Unicode block for Wancho is U+1E2C0–U+1E2FF:
References
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Alphabets
2001 introductions
Wancho language