Tolong Siki
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| Tolong Siki | |
|---|---|
 Tolong Siki script | |
| Script type | |
Period | since 1999 |
| Direction | Left-to-right  |
| Languages | Kurukh |
| Related scripts | |
Parent systems | Influence from Dravidic scripts.
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| ISO 15924 | |
| ISO 15924 | Tols (299), Tolong Siki |
| Unicode | |
Unicode alias | Tolong Siki |
| U+11DB0–U+11DEF | |
Tolong Siki is an alphabetic script made specifically for Kurux language in 1999 by Narayan Oraon, a doctor. Many books and magazines have been published in Tolong Siki, and it was officially recognized by the state of Jharkhand in 2007. The Kurukh Literary Society of India has been instrumental in spreading the Tolong Siki script for Kurukh literature.[1][2]
Unicode
[edit]Tolong Siki was added to the Unicode Standard in September 2025 with the release of version 17.0.
The Unicode block for Tolong Siki is U+11DB0–U+11DEF:
| Tolong Siki[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+11DBx | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| U+11DCx | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| U+11DDx | | | | | | | | | | | | | ||||
| U+11DEx | | | | | | | | | | | ||||||
| Notes | ||||||||||||||||
References
[edit]- ^ Ager, Simon. "Tolong Siki alphabet and the Kurukh language". Omniglot. Retrieved 2019-12-19.
- ^ Pandey, Anshuman (2010-04-08). "Preliminary Proposal to Encode the Tolong Siki Script in the UCS" (PDF). Retrieved 2019-12-19.
- Kobayashi, Masato; Tirkey, Bablu (2017). The Kurux Language. Boston: Brill. ISBN 978-90-04-34766-3.