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 a cursive abjad which was used for writing Middle Persian on paper, it is thus described as one of the Pahlavi scripts.[1] It was written right to left, usually with spaces between words.[1]

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.[2]

Letters

Letters (Isolated Form)
Name[lower-alpha 1]	Text	IPA[3]
Aleph	𐮀	/a/, /aː/
Beth	𐮁	/b/, /w/
Gimel	𐮂	/g/, /j/
Daleth	𐮃	/d/, /j/
He	𐮄	/h/
Waw-Ayin-Resh	𐮅	/w/, /ʔ/, /r/
Zayin	𐮆	/z/
Heth	𐮇	/h/, /x/
Yodh	𐮈	/j/, /ē̆/, /ī̆/, /d͡ʒ/
Kaph	𐮉	/k/, /g/
Lamedh	𐮊	/l/, /r/
Mem-Qoph	𐮋	/m/, /q/
Nun	𐮌	/n/
Samekh	𐮍	/s/, /h/
Pe	𐮎	/p/, /b/, /f/
Sadhe	𐮏	/t͡ʃ/, /d͡ʒ/, /z/
Shin	𐮐	/ʃ/
Taw	𐮑	/t/, /d/

Punctuation

Four different large section-ending punctuation marks were used:

Mark		Description
Image	Text	Description
	𐮙	Section mark
	𐮚	Turned section mark
	𐮛	Four dots with cross
	𐮜	Four dots with dot

Numbers

Psalter Pahlavi had its own numerals:

Value		1	2	3	4	10	20	100
Sign	Image
Sign	Text	𐮩	𐮪	𐮫	𐮬	𐮭	𐮮	𐮯

Some numerals have joining behavior (with both numerals and letters).[1] Numbers are written right-to-left. Numbers without corresponding numerals are additive. For example, 96 is written as 𐮮𐮮𐮮𐮮𐮭𐮫𐮫‎ (20 + 20 + 20 + 20 + 10 + 3 + 3).[1]

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)
	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
Notes 1.^ As of Unicode version 13.0 2.^ Grey areas indicate non-assigned code points

Notes

The names are based on the corresponding Imperial Aramaic characters

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References

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.
Encyclopædia Iranica: Pahlavi Psalter
Daniels, Peter T.; Bright, William, eds. (1996). The World's Writing Systems. Oxford University Press, Inc. pp. 518. ISBN 978-0195079937.

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[3] The names are based on the corresponding Imperial Aramaic characters

[N4040-1] 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.

[2] Encyclopædia Iranica: Pahlavi Psalter

[WWS-4] Daniels, Peter T.; Bright, William, eds. (1996). The World's Writing Systems. Oxford University Press, Inc. pp. 518. ISBN 978-0195079937.

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