Shavian (Shaw)

ISO 15924: ShawAlphabet1 total languages
Also known as: ShawIANA registered: 16 October 2005

Example text

๐‘๐‘‘๐‘’๐‘“๐‘”๐‘•๐‘–๐‘—๐‘˜๐‘™๐‘š๐‘›๐‘œ๐‘๐‘ž๐‘Ÿ๐‘ ๐‘ก๐‘ข๐‘ฃ๐‘ค๐‘ฅ๐‘ฆ๐‘ง๐‘จ๐‘ฉ๐‘ช๐‘ซ๐‘ฌ๐‘ญ๐‘ฎ๐‘ฏ๐‘ฐ๐‘ฑ๐‘ฒ๐‘ณ๐‘ด๐‘ต๐‘ถ๐‘ท๐‘ธ๐‘น๐‘บ๐‘ป

Rendered using a Noto web font where available; falls back to system fonts.

Writing Direction
Direction
Left-to-right
RTL
No
Vertical tradition
None / unusual
Source
Unicode CLDR scriptMetadata.txt
LTR value derived from Unicode CLDR script metadata.
Script Properties
Family
Constructed
Geographic origin
United Kingdom (constructed)
Usage status
Historical script
OpenType tag
shaw
Shavian alphabet, designed by Ronald Kingsley Read and funded by the estate of playwright George Bernard Shaw. A phonemic alphabet for English.

Related Scripts

LatnLatinDsrtDeseret (Mormon)

Unicode Blocks

ShavianU+10450

1 Unicode block contain Shavian (Shaw) characters. Browse all Unicode blocks โ†’

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

Language-specific characters and typing resources

A script does not have one alphabet shared by every language. Compare these directly sourced CLDR locale repertoires.

Multiple-source attestation (MAIN)
1

English
eng