Meroitic Hieroglyphs

ISO 15924: MeroAbugida0 total languages
IANA registered: 16 October 2005

Example text

No example text is available for Meroitic Hieroglyphs.

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
mero
Meroitic hieroglyphic script, used in the ancient Kingdom of Kush (Nubia) from c. 300 BCE to 400 CE. An adaptation of Egyptian hieroglyphs.

Related Scripts

EgypEgyptian hieroglyphsCoptCoptic

Unicode Blocks

Meroitic HieroglyphsU+10980

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

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