Hanifi Rohingya script

Hanifi Rohingya script 𐴌𐴟𐴇𐴥𐴝𐴚𐴒𐴙𐴝 𐴇𐴝𐴕𐴞𐴉𐴞 𐴓𐴠𐴑𐴤𐴝 رُحَ࣪ڠۡگَ࣪ࢬ حَنِفِي لࣦكَ࣪‎ Ruáingga Hanifi leká
The word "Rohingya" written in the script
Script type	Alphabet
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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The Hanifi Rohingya script is a unified script for the Rohingya language. Rohingya today is written in three scripts, Hanifi, Arabic (Rohingya Fonna), and Latin (Rohingyalish).^[1] The Rohingya language was first written in the 19th century with a version of the Perso-Arabic script. In 1975, an orthographic Arabic script was developed and approved by the community leaders, based on the Urdu alphabet but with unique innovations to make the script suitable to Rohingya.

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

This script, unlike the Arabic script, is alphabetical, meaning that all vowels are independent letters, as opposed to diacritics as is the case in Arabic. However, vowels cannot stand on their own and always need to be connected to a consonant similar to diacritics. 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]