Carian

Script Details

Carian

A stele depicting a false-door with Carian inscriptions

By Osama Shukir Muhammed Amin FRCP(Glasg) - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=56199678

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DISCLAIMER: This script is still being researched

Data

ISO 15924 Cari 201
Type Alphabet
Direction RtL in texts from Egypt LtR from Caria
Diacritics No
Capitals Used Yes
Glyphs 30+
Inventor Unknown
Earliest Location Western Anatolia
Earliest Date 700 BCE
Latest Date 300 BCE
Ancestry
  • Cretan
    • Greek
      • Carian

Overview

The term, 'Carian alphabet' refers to a number of regional scripts once used to write the Carian language of western Anatolia. It was first discovered to be an alphabet in 1965 and deciphered in 1981 by John D. Ray.

Bibliography

Author Year Publication Publisher
Melchert, Craig 2008 The Ancient Languages of Asia Minor, Carian, 64-68 Cambridge University Press
Melchert, H. Craig, ed. Woodard, Roger D. 2008 The Ancient Languages of Asia Minor Cambridge University Press
Ray, John D. 1982 The Carian Script, NEW SERIES, No. 28 (208) (1982), p. 77-90 Proceedings of the Cambridge Philological Society
Revesz, Peter Z. 2017 The Cretan Script Family Includes the Carian Alphabet MATEC Web of Conferences 125, 05019 (2017)
Swiggers, Pierre and Wolfgang Jennings 1996 The World's Writing Systems, The Anatolian Alphabets, 281-287 Oxford University Press