Manichaean

Manichaean Middle Persian fragment from Turfan, with portion of Mani's Sabuhragān where he outlines Mnichaeism's superiority to the world's other religions
M 5794r; from Turfanforschung database, https://invisibleeast.web.ox.ac.uk/article/middle-persian
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Data
ISO 15924 | 139 Mani |
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Type | Abajad |
Family | Semitic |
Direction | RtL |
Diacritics | Yes |
Contextual Forms | Yes |
Capitals Used | No |
Glyphs | 23 |
Inventor | The Prophet Mani |
Earliest Location | Southwest Asia |
Earliest Date | 300 CE |
Latest Date | 1000 CE |
Ancestry |
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Bibliography
Author | Year | Publication | Publisher |
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Coulmas, Florian | 1999 | The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Writing Systems, 313-349 | Blackwell Publishing |
Skjærvø, Prods Oktor | 1996 | The World's Writing Systems, Aramaic Scripts for Iranian Languages, 515-535 | Oxford University Press |
Yarshater, Eshan | 1983 | The Cambridge History of Iran, Volume 3, The Seleucid, Parthian and Sassanian Periods | Cambridge University Press |