Alphabet used mainly to write Avestan, the language of the Zoroastrian scripture Avesta
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Avestan
Script type
Alphabet
Time period
400–1000 CE
Direction
Right-to-left script
Languages
Avestan language, Middle Persian
Related scripts
Parent systems
Egyptian hieroglyphs[1]
Proto-Sinaitic
Phoenician alphabet
Aramaic alphabet
Pahlavi script
Avestan
ISO 15924
ISO 15924
Avst(134), Avestan
Unicode
Unicode alias
Avestan
Unicode range
U+10B00–U+10B3F
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The Avestan alphabet (Middle Persian: transliteration: dyn' dpywryh, transcription: dēn dēbīrē, Persian: دین دبیره, romanized: din dabire) is a writing system developed during Iran's Sasanian era (226–651 CE) to render the Avestan language.
As a side effect of its development, the script was also used for Pazend, a method of writing Middle Persian that was used primarily for Zend commentaries on the texts of the Avesta. In the texts of Zoroastrian tradition, the alphabet is referred to as "the religion's script" (dēn dibīrih in Middle Persian and din dabireh in New Persian).
^Himelfarb, Elizabeth J. "First Alphabet Found in Egypt", Archaeology 53, Issue 1 (January/February 2000): 21.
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Avestan (/əˈvɛstən/ ə-VESS-tən) is an umbrella term for two Old Iranian languages, Old Avestan (spoken in the 2nd to 1st millennium BC) and Younger Avestan...
and /t/. There are various conventions for transliteration of the Avestanalphabet. We adopt the following one here. Vowels: a ā ə ə̄ e ē o ō å ą i ī...
place of the older alphabet. Previously, two different scripts were used, Pahlavi, used for Middle Persian, and the Avestanalphabet (in Persian, Dīndapirak...
communities worldwide, would transcribe Avestan in Nagri script-based scripts as well as the Avestanalphabet. This is a relatively recent development...
texts were sometimes transcribed into the phonetically unambiguous Avestanalphabet. This latter system is called Pazand. From a formal historical and...
An alphabet is a standard set of letters written to represent particular sounds in a spoken language. Specifically, letters correspond to phonemes, the...
other symbols instead of phonetic symbols. The International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) is an alphabetic system of phonetic notation based primarily on the...
which case it is known as "Pahlevi" or Zoroastrian Middle Persian) and Avestanalphabet (in which case it is known as Pazend). As Manichaeism was persecuted...
other alphabets, such as the Vietnamese alphabet. Its modern repertoire is standardised as the ISO basic Latin alphabet. The term Latin alphabet may refer...
The alphabet was based on the Pahlavi one, but rather than the inadequacy of that script for recording spoken Middle Persian, the Avestanalphabet had...
question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of Hebrew letters. The Hebrew alphabet (Hebrew: אָלֶף־בֵּית עִבְרִי,[a] Alefbet ivri), known variously by scholars...
Williams (1892). An Avesta grammar in comparison with Sanskrit and The Avestanalphabet and its transcription. Stuttgart: AMS Press. p. xxx. Antje Wendtland...
see question marks, boxes, or other symbols. The Phoenician alphabet is a consonantal alphabet (or abjad) used across the Mediterranean civilization of Phoenicia...
Similarly the vowel letters in the Avestanalphabet were adapted from matres lectionis in the version of the Aramaic alphabet adapted as the Pahlavi scripts...
resemblance to a few characters from the Avestan (), Etruscan (), Georgian (Mkhedruli) (), and Phoenician () alphabets, and the Ge'ez script (ሀጣ) used to write...
vowel signs must be used after the consonant symbol. Compared to the Avestanalphabet Old Persian notably lacks voiced fricatives, but includes the sign...
misunderstanding of the term pazend, which actually denotes the use of the Avestanalphabet for writing certain Middle Persian texts. Rasmus Rask's seminal work...
Aramaic alphabet, which they call "Square Script", even for writing Hebrew, displacing the former Paleo-Hebrew alphabet. The modern Hebrew alphabet derives...
primary collection of religious texts of Zoroastrianism, composed in the Avestan language. The Avesta texts fall into several different categories, arranged...
(see also Egyptian hieroglyphs) Hieroglyphic Luwian Armenian language Avestan Brahmic family Devanagari: see Devanagari transliteration Pali Tocharian...
unjoined Syriac letters or other symbols instead of Syriac alphabet. The Syriac alphabet (ܐܠܦ ܒܝܬ ܣܘܪܝܝܐ ʾālep̄ bêṯ Sūryāyā) is a writing system primarily...
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