Alphabetic writing system used by the Caucasian Albanians
Caucasian Albanian
Matenadaran MS No. 7117, fol. 142r
Script type
Alphabet
Creator
Mesrop Mashtots
Time period
5th – 12th century AD
Direction
Left-to-right
Related scripts
Parent systems
Unknown
Armenian alphabet
Caucasian Albanian
ISO 15924
ISO 15924
Aghb(239), Caucasian Albanian
Unicode
Unicode alias
Caucasian Albanian
Unicode range
U+10530–U+1056F
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The Caucasian Albanian script was an alphabetic writing system used by the Caucasian Albanians, one of the ancient Northeast Caucasian peoples whose territory comprised parts of the present-day Republic of Azerbaijan and Dagestan.
It was used to write the Caucasian Albanian language and was one of only two native scripts ever developed for speakers of an indigenous Caucasian language (i.e., a language that has no genealogical relationship to other languages outside the Caucasus), the other being the Georgian scripts.[1] The Armenian language, the third language of the Caucasus and Armenian Highlands with its own native script, is an independent branch of the Indo-European language family.
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