Sorang Sompeng script

The Sorang Sompeng (Sora (Sorang Sompeng): 𑃐𑃦𑃝𑃗 𑃐𑃦𑃖𑃛𑃣𑃗) script is a modern (of early- to mid-20th century provenance) constructed writing system used to write Sora, a Munda language with approximately 300,000 speakers—the indigenous, Austroasiatic-speaking Sora people (alternatively named, and the word Sora alternatively spelled or romanized, Saura, Saora, Savara, and Sabara) of primarily coastal southern and eastern India. The script was created by the self-taught scholar and Sora activist Mangei Gomango in 1936 and is used primarily in religious contexts,^[1] akin to a liturgical language, in the rites of the Matar Banom (or Matharvanam) neo-animist religious movement of the Sora. To a far lesser, though still significant extent, Sorang Sompeng is learned, taught, read, and written for secular educational and literary purposes in Sora communities, primarily in the Indian states of Odisha and Andhra Pradesh.

Script type

Alphabet

Period

18 June 1936 – present^[1]

DirectionLeft-to-right 

LanguagesSora

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Sorang Sompeng 𑃐𑃦𑃝𑃗 𑃐𑃦𑃖𑃛𑃣𑃗
The words "Sorang Sompeng" in the Sorang Sompeng script
Script type	Alphabet
Period	18 June 1936 – present[1]
Direction	Left-to-right
Languages	Sora
Related scripts
Parent systems	original invention Sorang Sompeng
ISO 15924
ISO 15924	Sora (398), ​Sora Sompeng
Unicode
Unicode alias	Sora Sompeng
Unicode range	U+110D0–U+110FF
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The Sora language is also written in the Latin, Odia, and Telugu scripts.^[2]