Avestan

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Data

ISO 15924 Avst 134
Type Alphabet
Family Middle Eastern
Direction RTL
Diacritics Yes
Contextual Forms No
Capitals Used No
Glyphs 53
Earliest Location Yazd
Earliest Date 500 CE
Latest Date 1289 CE
Ancestry
      • Avestan

Bibliography

Author Year Publication Publisher
Coulmas, Florian 1999 The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Writing Systems, 1-33 Blackwell Publishing
Hoffman, Karl 2011 Avestan Language I-III Encyclopedia Iranica Foundation
Mark, Hale 2004 The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the Worlds Ancient Languages, Avestan, 742-763 Cambridge University Press
Martinez Garcia, Francisco Javierand Vaan, Michiel de; Sandell Ryan (translated) 2014 Introduction to Avestan, Introduction, 1-6 BRILL
Rodgers. Henry 2005 Writing Systems of the World, Semitic, 125 Blackwell Publishing