Psalter Pahlavi
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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
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| Languages | Middle Persian |
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Time period
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Mid-6th to 7th century CE |
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Parent systems
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Aramaic alphabet
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| Direction | Right-to-left |
| ISO 15924 | Phlp, 132 |
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Unicode alias
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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]
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Characters[edit]
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Unicode block[edit]
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) |
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| 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 | |||||||||
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Notes[edit]
- ^ The names are based on the corresponding Imperial Aramaic characters
References[edit]
- ^ 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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