Psalter Pahlavi
| Psalter Pahlavi |
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Sample of text taken from the Cross of Herat
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| Type | |
| 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. It was written right to left with dots for word division.
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.
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:
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