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Noto Sans Meroitic is an unmodulated (“sans serif”) design for texts in the
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historical Middle Eastern <em>Meroitic Hieroglyphs</em> and
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<em>Cursive</em> scripts.
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Noto Sans Meroitic contains 133 glyphs, 2 OpenType features, and supports 129
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characters from 2 Unicode blocks: Meroitic Hieroglyphs, Meroitic Cursive.
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<h3>Supported writing systems</h3>
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<h4>Meroitic Hieroglyphs</h4>
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Meroitic Hieroglyphs is a historical Middle Eastern logo-syllabary, written
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vertically right-to-left. Was used in 300 BCE–600 CE in today’s Sudan by the
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Kush (Meroë) people for the Meroitic language. Derived from Egyptian
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Hieroglyphs, used alongside Meroitic Cursive, and later Coptic. Read more on
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<a href="https://scriptsource.org/scr/Mero">ScriptSource</a>,
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<a href="https://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode13.0.0/ch11.pdf#G26724"
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>Unicode</a
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>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_15924:Mero">Wikipedia</a>,
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<a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Category:Meroitic_hieroglyphic_script"
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>Wiktionary</a
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>, <a href="https://r12a.github.io/scripts/links?iso=Mero">r12a</a>.
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<h4>Meroitic Cursive</h4>
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Meroitic Cursive is a historical Middle Eastern abugida, written
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right-to-left. Was used in 300 BCE–600 CE in today’s Sudan by the Kush (Meroë)
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people for the Meroitic language. Derived from Demotic Egyptian, used
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alongside Meroitic Hieroglyphs, and later Coptic. Needs software support for
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complex text layout (shaping). Read more on
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<a href="https://scriptsource.org/scr/Merc">ScriptSource</a>,
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<a href="https://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode13.0.0/ch11.pdf">Unicode</a>,
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<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_15924:Merc">Wikipedia</a>,
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<a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Category:Meroitic_cursive_script"
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>Wiktionary</a
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>, <a href="https://r12a.github.io/scripts/links?iso=Merc">r12a</a>.
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