01OVERVIEW
Front Matter
SCRIPT · PROFILE
Hanifi Rohingya
Script created in the 1980s by Rohingya scholar Hanifi Yusuf to overcome the limitations of Arabic-based writing — designed to perfectly represent Rohingya's unique phonemes.
Script created in the 1980s by Rohingya scholar Hanifi Yusuf to overcome the limitations of Arabic-based writing — designed to perfectly represent Rohingya's unique phonemes. After ~700,000 Rohingya became refugees following the 2017 Myanmar military genocide, teaching this script in Bangladesh's Kutupalong refugee camp (the world's largest) became central to maintaining cultural identity. Added to Unicode in 2021.
04SPECIMEN
The Letters
Signs · Unicode · TypesSample GlyphsClick to copy
Glyph evolution
Form change over time
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06MECHANICS
Reading Mechanics
Direction · Method↔
Direction
Right to Left (RTL)
Right to left (RTL)
α
System
Alphabet
⌨
Input method
Direct Unicode input
Keyboard layout
Standard IME · input chart
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07LINEAGE
The Lineage
Family · DescendantsPhylogeny
Ancestors & descendants
Phylogeny
Related scripts
Ancestors · Descendants · Family
08REACH