Meroitic Cursive

ISO 15924: MercAbugida1 total languages
IANA registered: 9 December 2009

Example text

No example text is available for Meroitic Cursive.

Writing Direction
Direction
Right-to-left
RTL
Yes
Vertical tradition
None / unusual
Source
Unicode CLDR scriptMetadata.txt
RTL value derived from Unicode CLDR script metadata.
Script Properties
Family
Egyptian / African
Geographic origin
East Africa
Usage status
Ancient script
OpenType tag
merc
Meroitic cursive script, the everyday writing form of the Meroitic language, used in ancient Kush.

Related Scripts

MeroMeroitic Hieroglyphs

Unicode Blocks

Meroitic CursiveU+109A0

1 Unicode block contain Meroitic Cursive characters. Browse all Unicode blocks →

The lists below count source attestation, not current or official usage. A language can appear under several scripts. Sources, denominators and limitations.

Multiple-source attestation (MAIN)
1

Meroitic
xmr