Everything about The Sogdian Alphabet totally explained
The
Sogdian alphabet was originally used for the
Sogdian language, which belongs to the Iranian family, but it has many child systems such as
Old Uyghur and other eastern Turkic languages. It was generally superseded by versions of the
Arabic alphabet on the conversion of the Turkic peoples to
Islam. It is derived from
Syriac, the descendant script of the
Aramaic alphabet.
It is occasionally known as the
sutra script, and is similar to the script of the ancient letters used in writing on papyri. Many
Buddhist,
Manichaean,
Nestorian, and
Zoroastrian texts as well as all secular material such as letters, legal documents, coin legends, and inscriptions were written in this script.
When used for the Sogdian language, this alphabet was usually written in horizontal lines from right to left. When used for Uyghur, it was normally in vertical direction from top to bottom, but with the first vertical line starting from the left side, not from the right as in Chinese, most probably because the
right-to-left direction was used in horizontal writing. The
Mongolian alphabet proper, being an adaptation of the Old Uyghur alphabet, still uses this kind of vertical writing, as does its remoter descendant
Manchu .
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