Akkha script (used by Eastern Magar language) in ISO 15924?

[Lorna Evans via Unicode]

Also: https://scriptsource.org/scr/Qabl


On Mon, Jul 22, 2019, 12:47 PM Ken Whistler via Unicode <unicode at unicode.org>
wrote:

> See the entry for "Magar Akkha" on:
>
> http://linguistics.berkeley.edu/sei/scripts-not-encoded.html
>
> Anshuman Pandey did preliminary research on this in 2011.
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> http://www.unicode.org/L2/L2011/11144-magar-akkha.pdf
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> It would be premature to assign an ISO 15924 script code, pending the
> research to determine whether this script should be separately encoded.
>
> --Ken
> On 7/22/2019 9:16 AM, Philippe Verdy via Unicode wrote:
>
> According to Ethnolog, the Eastern Magar language (mgp) is written in two
> scripts: Devanagari and "Akkha".
>
> But the "Akkha" script does not seem to have any ISO 15924 code.
>
> The Ethnologue currently assigns a private use code (Qabl) for this script.
>
> Was the addition delayed due to lack of evidence (even if this language is
> official in Nepal and India) ?
>
> Did the editors of Ethnologue submit an addition request for that script
> (e.g. for the code "Akkh" or "Akha" ?)
>
> Or is it considered unified with another script that could explain why it
> is not coded ? If this is a variant it could have its own code (like
> Nastaliq in Arabic). Or may be this is just a subset of another
> (Sino-Tibetan) script ?
>
>
>
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