Chorasmian

Script Details

Chorasmian

Inventory of characters on Chorasmian coins (БII–ГVI), Toprak Kala (Топрак-кала), Yakke Parsan (Якке парсан), Tok Kala (Ток-кала) (from Vainberg 1977: Table 8)

(from Vainberg 1977: Table 8) Anushman Pandey, Proposal to encode the Chorasmian script in Unicode, 2019

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Data

Alternate Names Khwarezmian
ISO 15924 Chrs 109
Type Abjad
Family Middle Eastern
Direction RtL, TtB Some inscriptions written vertically with letters rotated 90° counter-clockwise with lines that advance from left to right
Glyphs 28
Inventor Unknown
Earliest Location Delta of the Oxus (Amu Darya) river (spread across Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, and Turkmenistan), Also known as Avesta
Earliest Date 100 BCE
Latest Date 1000 CE
Ancestry
    • Chorasmian

Overview

“The Chorasmian script was used between the 2nd century and 8th to 9th centuries CE primarily to write the Chorasmian language, an Eastern Iranian language. The script was derived from Imperial Aramaic and is related to Parthian, Inscriptional Pahlavi, Psalter Pahlavi, Book Pahlavi, and Old Sogdian. ” - The Unicode Standard, Version 15.0

Bibliography

Author Year Publication Publisher
Pandey, Anushman 2019 Proposal to encode the Chorasmian script in Unicode The Unicode Consortium
The Unicode Consortium 2022 The Unicode Standard 15.0, p. 417, 434 The Unicode Consortium