Type Abjad Direction Right-to-left | Languages Middle Persian ISO 15924 Phlp, 132 | |
Time period Mid-6th to 7th century CE Parent systems Aramaic alphabet
Pahlavi scripts
Psalter Pahlavi | ||
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.
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:
References
Psalter Pahlavi Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA