This is a proposal to encode the Sumero-Akkadian cuneiform script in the international character encoding standard Unicode. This script was published in Unicode Standard version 5.0 in July 2006. Cuneiform was used to write Sumerian, Akkadian, Elamite, Hittite, and Hurrian. This proposal covers set of signs used from the Ur III period onwards. Signs specific to Early Dynastic period are separately encoded in a different block of Unicode. Since some changes have been made in Unicode since this proposal was approved, users should check the latest code charts, accessible at:.

This is a proposal to encode additions to cuneiform for inclusion in the international character encoding standard Unicode. This block of characters was published in Unicode Standard version 8.0 in June 2015. The characters were used in the Early Dynastic period from 2900-2335 BCE. The writing appears on materials that derive primarily from two sites in southern Iraq.