Manichaean

Script Details

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
Ancestry

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