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Old Turkic script
Orkhon script
A line dedicated to Bumin Qaghan in the Ongin inscription.
Script type
Alphabet
Time period
8th to 10th centuries[1]
Direction
Right-to-left script
Languages
Old Turkic
Related scripts
Parent systems
unknown
Old Turkic script
Child systems
Old Hungarian
ISO 15924
ISO 15924
Orkh(175), Old Turkic, Orkhon Runic
Unicode
Unicode alias
Old Turkic
Unicode range
U+10C00–U+10C4F
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Kul tigin Monument of Orkhon Inscriptions - Orkhon Museum, Kharkhorin, MongoliaTranscription of part of Bilge Kağan's inscription (lines 36–40)Location of the Orkhon Valley.
The Old Turkic script (also known as variously Göktürk script, Orkhon script, Orkhon-Yenisey script, Turkic runes) was the alphabet used by the Göktürks and other early Turkic khanates from the 8th to 10th centuries to record the Old Turkic language.[1]
The script is named after the Orkhon Valley in Mongolia where early 8th-century inscriptions were discovered in an 1889 expedition by Nikolai Yadrintsev.[2] These Orkhon inscriptions were published by Vasily Radlov and deciphered by the Danish philologist Vilhelm Thomsen in 1893.[3]
This writing system was later used within the Uyghur Khaganate. Additionally, a Yenisei variant is known from 9th-century Yenisei Kirghiz inscriptions, and it has likely cousins in the Talas Valley of Turkestan and the Old Hungarian alphabet of the 10th century. Words were usually written from right to left.
^ abScharlipp, Wolfgang (2000). An Introduction to the Old Turkish Runic Inscriptions. Verlag auf dem Ruffel, Engelschoff. ISBN 978-3-933847-00-3.
^Sinor, Denis (2002). "Old Turkic". History of Civilizations of Central Asia. Vol. 4. Paris: UNESCO. pp. 331–333.
^Vilhelm Thomsen, [Turkic] Orkhon Inscriptions Deciphered (Helsinki : Society of Finnish Literature Press, 1893). Translated in French and later English (Ann Arbor MI: University Microfilms Intl., 1971). OCLC 7413840
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