Social: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
|
| Direction | Right-to-left |
| ISO 15924 | Phlp, 132 |
Unicode alias | Psalter Pahlavi |
| U+10B80–U+10BAF | |
Psalter Pahlavi is a cursive abjad that 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
| Name[lower-alpha 1] | Image | 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/, /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 | |
 |
𐮙 | 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 |  |
30px | 30px | 30px | 30px | 30px | 
|
| 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:
Notes
- ↑ The names are based on the corresponding Imperial Aramaic characters
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Everson, Michael; Pournader, Roozbeh (2011-05-06). "N4040: Proposal for encoding the Psalter Pahlavi script in the SMP of the UCS". Working Group Document, ISO/IEC JTC1/SC2/WG2. https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2011/11147-n4040-psalter-pahlavi.pdf.
- ↑ 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. https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780195079937/page/518.
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