Wancho script is an alphabet created between 2001 and 2012 by middle school teacher Banwang Losu in Longding district, Arunachal Pradesh for writing the Wancho language.[1] Letters represent consonants and vowels. Conjunct consonants are not used. Tone is indicated with diacritical marks on vowel letters.[1]

Wancho
𞋒𞋀𞋉𞋃𞋕
The word 'Wancho' in Wancho script
Script type
CreatorBanwang Losu
Created2001
DirectionLeft-to-right Edit this on Wikidata
LanguagesWancho language
ISO 15924
ISO 15924Wcho (283), ​Wancho
Unicode
Unicode alias
Wancho
U+1E2C0–U+1E2FF

While Wancho script is taught in some schools, the Wancho language is generally written in either Devanagari script or the Latin alphabet.

Unicode

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Wancho script was added to the Unicode Standard in March 2019 on version 12.0.

The Unicode block for Wancho is U+1E2C0–U+1E2FF:

Wancho[1][2]
Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF)
  0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C D E F
U+1E2Cx 𞋀 𞋁 𞋂 𞋃 𞋄 𞋅 𞋆 𞋇 𞋈 𞋉 𞋊 𞋋 𞋌 𞋍 𞋎 𞋏
U+1E2Dx 𞋐 𞋑 𞋒 𞋓 𞋔 𞋕 𞋖 𞋗 𞋘 𞋙 𞋚 𞋛 𞋜 𞋝 𞋞 𞋟
U+1E2Ex 𞋠 𞋡 𞋢 𞋣 𞋤 𞋥 𞋦 𞋧 𞋨 𞋩 𞋪 𞋫 𞋬 𞋭 𞋮 𞋯
U+1E2Fx 𞋰 𞋱 𞋲 𞋳 𞋴 𞋵 𞋶 𞋷 𞋸 𞋹 𞋿
Notes
1.^ As of Unicode version 16.0
2.^ Grey areas indicate non-assigned code points

References

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  1. ^ a b Everson, Michael (2017-10-22). "L2/17-067R2: Proposal to encode the Wancho script" (PDF).