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{{Short description|Writing system}}
The '''Elymaic alphabet''' is a right-to-left, non-joining [[abjad]].<ref name="L217226">{{cite web|url=https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2017/17226r2-elymaic.pdf|title=L2/17226R2: Proposal to encode the Elymaic script in Unicode | first = Anshuman | last = Pandey| publisher=Working Group Document, ISO/IEC JTC1/SC2/WG2 and UTC|date=2017-10-23|access-date=2018-09-15}}</ref>
It is derived from the [[Aramaic alphabet]].<ref name="WWS">{{cite book | title=The World's Writing Systems | year=1996 | editor1-first=Peter T. | editor1-last=Daniels | editor1-link=Peter T. Daniels | editor2-last=Bright | editor2-first=William | editor2-link=William Bright | publisher=Oxford University Press, Inc | isbn=978-0195079937 | pages=[https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780195079937/page/89 89] | url-access=registration | url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780195079937/page/89 }}</ref>
Elymaic was used in the ancient state of [[Elymais]],<ref name="L217226"/> which was a [[vassal state|semi-independent state]] of the 2nd century BCE to the early 3rd century CE, frequently a vassal under [[Parthian Empire|Parthian]] control, in the present-day region of [[Khuzestan]], [[Iran]] ([[Susiana]]).<ref name="Hansman">{{cite encyclopedia |last=Hansman |first=John F | title= ELYMAIS | encyclopedia=Encyclopædia Iranica | access-date=2012-12-24|url=http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/elymais}}</ref>

{{Infobox writing system
| sample = 
| caption = 
| name = Elymaic alphabet
| type = [[Abjad]]
| languages = Achaemenid [[Aramaic]]<ref name="L217226"/>
| time = 2nd century BCE — early 3rd century CE
| fam1 = [[Egyptian hieroglyphs]]
| fam2 = [[Proto-Sinaitic script]]
| fam3 = [[Phoenician alphabet]]
| fam4 = [[Aramaic alphabet]]
|unicode= [https://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U10FE0.pdf U+10FE0–U+10FFF]
|iso15924=Elym
|note=none
}}

==Unicode==
{{Main|Elymaic (Unicode block)}}
The Elymaic alphabet was added to the [[Unicode]] Standard in March, 2019 with the release of version 12.0.

The Unicode block for Elymaic is U+10FE0–U+10FFF:

{{Unicode chart Elymaic}}

==References==
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{{list of writing systems}}
[[Category:Abjad writing systems]]
[[Category:Obsolete writing systems]]
[[Category:Elymais]]

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