Sogdian

The origins

Sogdian writing was used from the VII to XIV century for registering the Sogdian language accordingly. It got its name due to the territory where it was spread — Sogdiana (or Sogd), it's a historiographic location in Central Asia. Most of the artifacts with Sogdian samples were discovered in Uzbekistan: manuscripts, coins, stones, ceramics, all kinds of evidence.

This alphabet evolved from Old Sogdian, which came from Syrian. Not to make it more confusing, but Sogdian in its turn became the ancestor and source for Uighur and Old Mongolian. When Islam became widespread, Sogdian was gradually replaced with Arabic variations.

Typical features

The Sogdian alphabet belongs to the consonant type or abjad. The letters can go both horizontally from right to left and vertically from top to bottom. In the second case, the symbols are rotated counterclockwise by 90 degrees.

Like other consonant alphabets, Sogdian letters have several forms depending on their location in the word. Unicode mainly presents independent and isolated forms.

Właściwości

Zakres	10F30–10F6F
Znaki	64

Lista Znaków

Tabela Znaków

10F00–10F2F Old Sogdian 10F70–10FAF Old Uyghur

0: Główna płaszczyzna wielojęzyczna

1: Opcjonalna płaszczyzna wielojęzyczna

2: Dodatkowa płaszczyzna ideograficzna

3: Trzeciorzędowa płaszczyzna ideograficzna

4-13: Nieużywana

14: Wyspecjalizowana dodatkowa płaszczyzna

15: Dodatkowy obszar do użytku prywatnego – A

16: Dodatkowy obszar do użytku prywatnego – B