Psalter Pahlavi

From Infogalactic: the planetary knowledge core
(Redirected from Psalter alphabet)
Jump to: navigation, search

<templatestyles src="Module:Hatnote/styles.css"></templatestyles>

Psalter Pahlavi
Cross of Herat - Psalter Pahlavi Inscription.png
Sample of text taken from the Cross of Herat
Type
Languages Middle Persian
Time period
Mid-6th to 7th century CE
Parent systems
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] It was written right to left with dots for word division.[2]

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.[3]

Characters

Unicode block

<templatestyles src="Module:Hatnote/styles.css"></templatestyles>

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
1.^ As of Unicode version 8.0
2.^ Grey areas indicate non-assigned code points

Notes

  1. The names are based on the corresponding Imperial Aramaic characters

References

See also

<templatestyles src="Asbox/styles.css"></templatestyles>