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Tagalog

U+1700 – U+171F   (5888–5919)

The Tagalog range was introduced with version 3.2 of the Unicode Standard, and is located in Plane 0, the Basic Multilingual Plane.

Tagalog (which is now officially known as “Pilipino”) is the most widely-used native language in the Philippines, and is normally written using the Latin script. This range includes the syllabic Tagalog alphabet, use of which had all but died out by 1600 A.D.

Unicode Tagalog can be displayed by Netscape 7 under Windows, and by Netscape 7, OmniWeb and Opera 6 under Mac OS X 10.

The characters that appear in the “Character” columns of the following table depend on the browser that you are using, the fonts installed on your computer, and the browser options you have chosen that determine the fonts used to display particular character sets, encodings or languages.

You can find some or all of the characters in this range in the Windows Unicode fonts Baybayin Lopez, Bikol Mintz, Bisaya Hervas, Quivira, Tagalog Doctrina 1593 and Tagalog Stylized.

To see exactly which characters are included in a particular font, you can use a utility such as Andrew West’s BabelMap, or WunderMoosen’s FontChecker.

If you are not familiar with the characters, you can check the characters displayed here with the graphical display at http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U1700.pdf.

Character
(decimal)
DecimalCharacter
(hex)
HexName
58881700TAGALOG LETTER A
58891701TAGALOG LETTER I
58901702TAGALOG LETTER U
58911703TAGALOG LETTER KA
58921704TAGALOG LETTER GA
58931705TAGALOG LETTER NGA
58941706TAGALOG LETTER TA
58951707TAGALOG LETTER DA
58961708TAGALOG LETTER NA
58971709TAGALOG LETTER PA
5898170ATAGALOG LETTER BA
5899170BTAGALOG LETTER MA
5900170CTAGALOG LETTER YA
5902170ETAGALOG LETTER LA
5903170FTAGALOG LETTER WA
59041710TAGALOG LETTER SA
59051711TAGALOG LETTER HA
ᜊᜒ5906ᜊᜒ1712TAGALOG VOWEL SIGN I (combined with ba)
ᜊᜓ5907ᜊᜓ1713TAGALOG VOWEL SIGN U (combined with ba)
ᜊ᜔5908ᜊ᜔1714TAGALOG SIGN VIRAMA (combined with ba)

Copyright © 2002–2009 Alan Wood

The hexadecimal numbers and the character names in the above table are taken from the Unicode 3.2 Character Database, Copyright © 1991–2002 Unicode, Inc., as contained in UnicodeData.txt on the Unicode Web site (http://www.unicode.org/Public/UNIDATA/) in April 2002.

Created 17th April 2002   Last updated 25th November 2009

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