Psalter Pahlavi

For the translated document this writing system is named after, see Pahlavi Psalter.

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. 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.

Characters

Letters

Letter name	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

Further information: Psalter Pahlavi (Unicode block)

Psalter Pahlavi 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 9.0 2.^ Grey areas indicate non-assigned code points

See also

• This proposal for Psalter Pahlavi script was written by Michael Everson and Roozbeh Pournader [this is the link to the script proposal: http://www.unicode.org/L2/L2011/11147-n4040-psalter-pahlavi.pdf]
• This script proposal had support from the Script Encoding Initiative at UC Berkeley [for more information click the following link: http://linguistics.berkeley.edu/sei/]