Psalter Pahlavi
For the translated document this writing system is named after, see Pahlavi Psalter.
| Psalter Pahlavi | |
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 Sample of text taken from the Cross of Herat | |
| Type | |
| Languages | Middle Persian |
Time period | Mid-6th to 7th century CE |
Parent systems |
Aramaic alphabet
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| Direction | Right-to-left |
| ISO 15924 |
Phlp, 132 |
Unicode alias | Psalter Pahlavi |
| U+10B80–U+10BAF | |
Psalter Pahlavi is an abjad which was used for writing Middle Persian on paper, it is thus described as one of the Pahlavi scripts.[1][2] It was written right to left with dots for word division.[3]
It takes its name from the Pahlavi Psalter, part of the Psalms translated from Syriac to Middle Persian and found in what is now western China.[4]
Characters
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Unicode block
Main article: Psalter Pahlavi (Unicode block)
Psalter Pahlavi script was added to the Unicode Standard in June, 2014 with the release of version 7.0.
The Unicode block is U+10B80–U+10BAF:
| Psalter Pahlavi[1][2] Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF) | ||||||||||||||||
| 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | A | B | C | D | E | F | |
| U+10B8x | 𐮀 | 𐮁 | 𐮂 | 𐮃 | 𐮄 | 𐮅 | 𐮆 | 𐮇 | 𐮈 | 𐮉 | 𐮊 | 𐮋 | 𐮌 | 𐮍 | 𐮎 | 𐮏 |
| U+10B9x | 𐮐 | 𐮑 | 𐮙 | 𐮚 | 𐮛 | 𐮜 | ||||||||||
| U+10BAx | 𐮩 | 𐮪 | 𐮫 | 𐮬 | 𐮭 | 𐮮 | 𐮯 | |||||||||
| Notes | ||||||||||||||||
Notes
- ↑ The names are based on the corresponding Imperial Aramaic characters
References
- ↑ Everson, Michael; Pournader, Roozbeh (2011-05-06). "N4040: Proposal for encoding the Psalter Pahlavi script in the SMP of the UCS" (PDF). Working Group Document, ISO/IEC JTC1/SC2/WG2.
- ↑ Omniglot: Middle Persian scripts
- ↑ Omniglot: Psalter script
- ↑ Encyclopædia Iranica: Pahlavi Psalter
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