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The language of the persecuted minority Rohingya will be digitized
by Aamna Mohdin
December 20, 2017

The Rohingya, the persecuted Muslim ethnic minority in Myanmar, will soon be able to text, write emails, and post online in their own language.

The move marks a big step for a group of stateless people who have long been denied recognition—in real life and online. The script of the Rohingya language will be included in the next version of Unicode, the international standard for encoding characters and symbols on computers.

“After I learned about the Hanifi Rohingya script in 2011, I wanted to make sure that the people who use the script would someday have a chance to use it on computers,” says Anshuman Pandey, a US-based language technologist who conducted the research to develop the Rohingya script for Unicode standard.

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