Rma script
| Rma script Rrmea bapa | |
|---|---|
| Script type | |
| Creator | Wei Jiuqiao (Chinese: 魏久乔) |
Period | 2017–present |
| Direction | Left to right, new line underneath |
| Languages | |
| Unicode | |
| proposed (U+16140 - U+1617F) | |
The Rma script (Northern Qiang: Rrmea bapa) is an alphabet with some abugida-like features devised for the Qiang language, spoken in Sichuan Province in the southwest of China. It was finalized in 2017 by scholar Wei Jiuqiao.
The script fits the phonology of the standardized language of the Northern Qiang variety of Qugu, officially written with the Roman script using the Qiang Phonetic Alphabet Scheme. Whereas Northern Qiang varieties have length contrasts, Southern Qiang varieties have phonemic tone contrasts; thus a version with tonal diacritics has also been produced, and has been used for the Southern Qiang variety of Luobuzhai (Chinese: 萝卜寨; pinyin: Luóbozhài) in Wenchuan County. It has gained substantial recognition among the Qiang people, and various books have been published in it.
In 2022, a preliminary proposal was made to encode this system in the Universal Character Set of Unicode.