Manchu

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Manchu

Old Books in Manchu Script

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DISCLAIMER: This script is still being researched

Data

ISO 15924 145 Mong
Type Alphabet
Family Aramaic
Direction TtB, LtR
Diacritics Yes
Contextual Forms Yes
Capitals Used No
Glyphs 37
Inventor Nurhachi
Earliest Date 1599 CE
Latest Date 1950 CE
Ancestry

Bibliography

Author Year Publication Publisher
Coulmas, Florian 1999 The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Writing Systems, 313-349 Blackwell Publishing
Dresher, B Elan and Xi, Zhang 2005 The Canadian Journal of Linguistics University of Toronto Press
Kara, Gyorgy 1996 The World's Writing Systems, Aramaic Scripts for Altaic Languages, 550-553 Oxford University Press