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Sogdian Script

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Origin from 100

The Sogdian alphabet was the script used for Sogdian, a Middle Iranian language spoken in Sogdia in Central Asia. Descended, like Syriac, from the Aramaic alphabet, it was a cursive abjad used throughout Central Asia, from the edge of Iran in the west to China in the east, from about the second century to the twelfth or thirteenth century AD. Its cursive Uyghur form developed into the Old Uyghur alphabet, whose own descendant, the traditional Mongolian alphabet, still preserves the vertical column writing this lineage introduced.

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Script Type
Abjad 1
In Use Since (Year)
from 100 1
Circa; sources give the script's use as running from about 100 to about 1200 AD.
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Sharpened from the prior associated-stance edge to Aramaic Alphabet now that the direct intermediate, Sogdian Script, exists (EntityRequest 453).

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1. Wikipedia: Sogdian Alphabet
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the Sogdian writing system can be described as an abjad
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