The Hanifi Rohingya script is a unified script for the

Rohingya language Rohingya (), also known as Ruáingga ( Hanifi Rohingya: ; ), is an Indo-Aryan language spoken by the Rohingya people of Rakhine State, Myanmar. It is an Eastern Indo-Aryan language belonging to the Bengali–Assamese branch, and is closely r ...

. Rohingya was first written in the 19th century with a version of the

Perso-Arabic script The Persian alphabet ( fa, الفبای فارسی, Alefbâye Fârsi) is a writing system that is a version of the Arabic script used for the Persian language spoken in Iran ( Western Persian) and Afghanistan (Dari Persian) since the 7th cen ...

. In 1975, an orthographic Arabic script was developed, based on the

Urdu alphabet The Urdu alphabet (), is the right-to-left alphabet used for Urdu. It is a modification of the Persian script, which is itself a derivative of the Arabic script. The Urdu alphabet has up to 39 or 40 distinct letters with no distinct letter ...

. In the 1980s, Mohammad Hanif and his colleagues created the suitable phonetic script based on Arabic letters; it has been compared to the

N’ko N'Ko () is a script devised by Solomana Kante in 1949, as a modern writing system for the Mandé languages of West Africa. The term ''N'Ko'', which means ''I say'' in all Mandé languages, is also used for the Mandé literary standard written i ...

script. The script also includes a set of decimal numbers.

Characters

Alphabet and pronunciation

Consonants

Vowels

Numerals

Unicode

The Hanifi Rohingya script was added to the

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in June 2018 with the release of version 11.0. Proposals to include it in Unicode were written by linguist Anshuman Pandey. The Unicode block for Hanifi Rohingya is U+10D00–U+10D3F and contains 50 characters:

Fonts

Google's Noto Sans has developed a Rohingya script font called ''Noto Sans Hanifi Rohingya'', available a
GitHub

Rohingya keyboard

A virtual keyboard was developed by

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for the Rohingya language in 2019 and allows users to type directly in the Rohingya script. The Rohingya Unicode keyboard layout can be foun
here

References

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