Hanifi Rohingya script 𐴌𐴟𐴇𐴥𐴝𐴚𐴒𐴙𐴝 𐴇𐴝𐴕𐴞𐴉𐴞 𐴓𐴠𐴑𐴤𐴝 رُحَ࣪ڠۡگَ࣪ࢬ حَنِفِي لࣦكَ࣪ Ruáingga Hanifi leká
The word "Rohingya" written in the script
Script type	Abjad
Creator	Mohammad Hanif
Created	1980s
Direction	Right-to-left script
Languages	Rohingya language
Related scripts
Parent systems	Egyptian hieroglyphs Proto-Sinaitic script Phoenician script Aramaic script Nabataean script Arabic script Hanifi Rohingya script
ISO 15924
ISO 15924	Rohg(167), ​Hanifi Rohingya
Unicode
Unicode alias	Hanifi Rohingya
Unicode range	U+10D00–U+10D3F
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TheHanifi Rohingya script is a unified script for theRohingya language. It is one of three scripts currently used to write the Rohingya language, the other two being theRohingya Arabic alphabet and the Rohingya Latin script.^[1] The Rohingya language was first written in the 19th century with a version of thePerso-Arabic script. In 1975, an orthographicArabic script was developed and approved by the community leaders, based on theUrdu alphabet but with unique innovations to make the script suitable to Rohingya.

In the 1980s,Mohammad Hanif and his colleagues created a suitablephonetic script based on the Arabic alphabet; it has been compared to theN’ko script.

This script, unlike the Arabic script, is alphabetical, meaning that all vowels are independent letters, as opposed todiacritics as is the case in Arabic. However, vowels cannot stand on their own and always need to be connected to a consonant similar todiacritics. Therefore, diphthongs cannot be written as vowel-vowel combination even though typographically this is possible. Tone markers are shown as diacritics in Hanifi script. It is written from right to left, following the direction of the Arabic script.^[2][3]

The Rohingya script has 28 consonant letters and 10 vowel letters.

The script has 10 vowel letters.

The script has threetone markers that are shown as diacritics above the vowel letters. The tone markers indicate high, low or falling tones.

Mohammad Hanif and his colleagues also created a set of numerals for the Rohingya language, The numbers are based on theHindu–Arabic numerals but with some modifications.

The Rohingya script is written from right to left, similar to the Arabic script. There are28 consonants and10 vowels in the Rohingya language.

Each letter sits differently on the four-line writing system:

• 21 alphabets are writtenabove the middle three lines
• 6 alphabets are writtenwithin the middle two lines
• 1 alphabet is writtenbelow the middle two lines

Understanding these positions is important for learning proper handwriting and preserving the beauty of the Rohingya script.

The Hanifi Rohingya script was added to theUnicode Standard in June 2018 with the release of version 11.0. Proposals to include it in Unicode were written by linguist Anshuman Pandey.^[7]

The Unicode block for Hanifi Rohingya is U+10D00–U+10D3F and contains 50 characters:^[8]

• Google's Noto Sans has developed a Rohingya script font calledNoto Sans Hanifi Rohingya, available atGitHub.
• Rohingya Hanifi Script font stylesGoogle Playstore
• Rohingya Hanifi Script font stylesApp Store

Avirtual keyboard was developed byGoogle for the Rohingya language in 2019 and allows users to type in the Rohingya script. Ahkter Husin, a Rohingya software developer developed a keyboard forAndroid phones which is available onGoogle Play Store. Users can downloadhere. Ahkter Husin and Kyaw Zay Ya Lin Tun developed a keyboard app foriOS which can be foundhere. The RohingyaUnicode keyboard layout can be foundhere.

The following is a Rohingya translation of Article 1 of theUniversal Declaration of Human Rights, comparing the Hanifi and Arabic scripts.

• English-Rohingya dictionary applicationGoogle Playstore
• Rohingya Picture Dictionary applicationGoogle Playstore
• Rohingya Keyboard App with auto suggestionGoogle Playstore
• Rohingya Books App with 1000 plus books in Hanifi ScriptGoogle Playstore
• Rohingya Hanifi Script font stylesGoogle Playstore

• Rohingya Language Council

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