Psalter Pahlavi

Psalter Pahlavi
Sample of text taken from the Cross of Herat
Type	Abjad
Languages	Middle Persian
Time period	Mid-6th to 7th century CE
Parent systems	Aramaic alphabet Pahlavi scripts Psalter Pahlavi
Direction	Right-to-left
ISO 15924	Phlp, 132
Unicode alias	Psalter Pahlavi
Unicode range	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

Letters Letter name[lower-alpha 1] Letter Aleph Beth Gimel Daleth He Waw-ayin-resh Zayin Heth Yodh Kaph Lamedh Mem-qoph Nun Samekh Pe Sadhe Shin Taw

Punctuation Character name Character Section mark Turned section mark Four dots with cross Four dots with dot

Numerals Value Numeral One Two Three Four Ten Twenty One hundred

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:

Notes

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