Chisoi
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| Chisoi Alphabet Chisoi Chinhap | |
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 Chisoi Alphabet Chart | |
| Script type | |
| Creator | Jayanta Kumar Mahata |
| Created | 1986 |
Period | 1986–present |
| Direction | Left-to-right |
| Languages | Kudmali |
| Related scripts | |
Parent systems | Original Invention
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The Chisoi alphabet or Kurmali Lipi is a alphabetic writing sytem used to write the Kudmali language spread across West Bengal, Jharkhand, Odisha and Assam in northeastern India.[1] It was invented by Jayanta Kumar Mahata, a native speaker, in 1986 as an authentic way to write the phonetics of Kurmali. Various school primers and educational materials have been published in this script.[2]: 2 Though the predominant scripts for writing Kudmali remain Devanagari, Bengali and Odia, community-led efforts have increased its use across Jharkhand.
Chisoi is a unicameral alphabet written from left to right with no ligatures or conjuncts. It has 30 basic alphabets, 27 basic consonants and 3 diacritic markers, along with 10 numeric signs. [2]: 3–4
Unicode
[edit]A proposal has been submitted to encode the Chisoi alphabet in Unicode.[2]
References
[edit]- ↑ Ager, Simon (15 March 2023). "Chisoi alphabet". Omniglot. Retrieved 12 June 2026.
- 1 2 3 Mandal, Biswajit (2022-11-01). "Proposal to Encode Chisoi in the Universal Character Set" (PDF). Unicode Consortium. L2/22-218R3. Retrieved 2026-06-12.
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