Writing Systems

SogdianinSogdian

sog·SogdAbjadRTLMultiple-source attestation (MAIN)

GlotScript records this relationship through multiple-source attestation. Present-day usage, official status, region and dates are unknown here unless separately sourced. How to interpret the evidence.

Language
ISO 639-3sogStatusHistoricalScopeIndividualScripts used4
Script
ISO 15924SogdFamilyAramaic / Silk RoadOriginCentral AsiaDirectionRight-to-leftStatusAncient scriptOpenType tagsogd

Sogdian script (5th–11th century CE), used for the Sogdian language, the lingua franca of the Silk Road. Ancestor of the Old Uyghur script (which became Mongolian).

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