Pollard font
The Pollard script is an Abugida that was invented by the British missionary Samuel Pollard (1864-1915) for use in the languages of the Miao , particularly A-Hmao . It was created in 1905 and reformed by 1936.
The script is based on the Latin alphabet , but is completely different in structure due to its status as Abugida. It differs from other Abugidas in that the position of the vowel signs is not arbitrary - it indicates the tone of the syllable.
Since version 6.1 of January 2012, the Pollard font has been part of Unicode as a Unicode block Pollard font .
Web links
- Pollard Miao alphabet
- Proposal to add Pollard to Unicode / ISO-IEC 10646 (PDF file; 254 kB)