ISO 6438
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ISO 6438:1983, Documentation — African coded character set for bibliographic information interchange, is an ISO standard for an 8-bit character encoding
for African languages. It has had little use (such as being available through UNIMARC). In practice it is now superseded by Unicode
.
Character encoding
A character encoding system consists of a code that pairs each character from a given repertoire with something else, such as a sequence of natural numbers, octets or electrical pulses, in order to facilitate the transmission of data through telecommunication networks or storage of text in...
for African languages. It has had little use (such as being available through UNIMARC). In practice it is now superseded by Unicode
Unicode
Unicode is a computing industry standard for the consistent encoding, representation and handling of text expressed in most of the world's writing systems...
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| ISO 6438 | ||||||||||||||||
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| x0 | x1 | x2 | x3 | x4 | x5 | x6 | x7 | x8 | x9 | xA | xB | xC | xD | xE | xF | |
| Ax | Ɓ | Ƈ | Ɗ | Ɖ | Ɛ | Ǝ | Ƒ ƒ The letter ' is a letter of the Latin alphabet, based on the italic form of f; or on its regular form with a descender hook added... |
Ɠ | Ɣ | Ħ | Ɨ | |||||
| Bx | ɓ | ƈ | ɗ | ɖ | ɛ | ə | ƒ ƒ The letter ' is a letter of the Latin alphabet, based on the italic form of f; or on its regular form with a descender hook added... |
ɠ | ɣ | ħ | ɪ | |||||
| Cx | Ƙ | Ŋ | Ɵ | Ɔ | Ƥ | |||||||||||
| Dx | ƙ | ɬ | ɱ | ɳ | ɲ | ŋ | ɵ | ɔ | ƥ | ɽ | ʃ | |||||
| Ex | Ƭ | Ʈ | Ʊ | Ʋ | Χ | Ƴ | Ʒ | |||||||||
| Fx | ƭ | ʈ | ʊ | ʋ | χ | ƴ | ʒ | ʕ | ʔ | ʘ | ǀ | ǂ | ǃ | ǁ | ||
See also
- Africa AlphabetAfrica AlphabetThe Africa Alphabet was developed in 1928 under the lead of Diedrich Westermann. He developed it with a group of Africanists at the International Institute of African Languages and Cultures in London...
- African reference alphabetAfrican reference alphabetAn African reference alphabet was first proposed in 1978 by a UNESCO-organized conference held in Niamey, Niger, and the proposed alphabet was revised in 1982...
- Dinka alphabetDinka alphabetThe Dinka alphabet as used by the Sudanese Dinka people writing the Dinka language is Latin, adding some letters adapted from the International Phonetic Alphabet to the basic Latin alphabet. The current orthography is derived from the alphabet developed for the southern Sudanese languages at the...
- Pan-Nigerian AlphabetPan-Nigerian alphabetThe Pan-Nigerian alphabet is a set of 33 Latin letters standardized by the National Language Centre of Nigeria in the 1980s. It is intended to be sufficient to write all the languages of Nigeria without using digraphs.-History:...
- Standard Alphabet by LepsiusStandard Alphabet by LepsiusThe Standard Alphabet by Lepsius is a Latin alphabet developed by Karl Richard Lepsius to write African languages. Published 1855 and in a revised edition in 1863, it was comprehensive but it was not used much as it contains a lot of diacritic marks and therefore was difficult to read, write and...