Hanifi Rohingya News Today

The Rohingya language remained an oral tradition until the 1980s when Mohammad Hanif, an Islamic scholar, developed a script based on Arabic letters and a set of decimal numbers.

The Hanifi Rohingya script was included in a 2019 upgrade to the Unicode Standard, a global encoding system that changes written script into digital characters and numbers. Now, Rohingya can now email, text, and post on social media in their own language.