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 | 
|---|---|
| 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 | 
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Bibliography
| Author | Year | Publication | Publisher | 
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |