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A script for a stateless language.
Also known as: Rohingya Hanifi script
The script devised in the twentieth century for Rohingya, previously written in Arabic and Latin scripts.
Writes Rohingya in a purpose-built right-to-left alphabet with full vowel notation.
Contexts: Language and transcription, History
Gives full letters to vowels and to tone, neither of which the Arabic script it replaced recorded reliably, so the design addresses two specific defects of the borrowed orthography it displaced.
Contexts: Language and transcription, History
Letters derived from Arabic forms written right to left, with full vowel letters and tone marks, and its own set of digits.