Carian
The Carian alphabets are a number of regional scripts used to write the Carian language of western Anatolia. It's geographical location is between the ancient regions of Lycia and Lydia, the alphabets of which have a lot of similarities with Carian. You can even conduct your own investigation, as we have the Lycian and Lydian scripts on the website.
As you are to discover further, the main Carian inscriptions were found in Caria, Mainland Greece and Egypt.
Carian was deciphered primarily through Egyptian–Carian bilingual tomb inscriptions, starting with John Ray in 1981. I don't know why, but I find it especially fascinating that to decipher a language you need to study not the books, not the papers, but the tombs of real people. People actually had to die for this language to be documented. Wow!
Wasn't there any evidence to this script before? Well, there was, but only a few sound values and the alphabetic order of the script. The readings of Ray and subsequent scholars were largely confirmed with a Carian–Greek bilingual inscription discovered in Kaunos in 1996, which for the first time verified personal names, but the identification of many letters remains provisional and debated, and a few are wholly unknown.
Speaking of structure, the Carian scripts consisted of 30 alphabetic letters, with several geographic variants in Caria and a homogeneous variant attested from the Nile delta, where Carian mercenaries fought for the Egyptian pharaohs. They were written left-to-right in Caria (apart from the Carian–Lydian city of Tralleis) and right-to-left in Egypt.
Propriedades
Intervalo | 102A0–102DF |
Personagens | 64 |
Lista de Caracteres
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Cartas
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102A0𐊠
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102A1𐊡
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102A2𐊢
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102A3𐊣
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102A4𐊤
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102A5𐊥
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102A6𐊦
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102A7𐊧
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102A8𐊨
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102A9𐊩
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102AA𐊪
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102AB𐊫
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102AC𐊬
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102AD𐊭
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102AE𐊮
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102AF𐊯
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102B0𐊰
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102B1𐊱
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102B2𐊲
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102B3𐊳
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102B4𐊴
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102B5𐊵
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102B6𐊶
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102B7𐊷
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102B8𐊸
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102B9𐊹
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102BA𐊺
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102BB𐊻
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102BC𐊼
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102BD𐊽
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102BE𐊾
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102BF𐊿
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102C0𐋀
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102C1𐋁
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102C2𐋂
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102C3𐋃
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102C4𐋄
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102C5𐋅
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102C6𐋆
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102C7𐋇
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102C8𐋈
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102C9𐋉
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102CA𐋊
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102CB𐋋
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102CC𐋌
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102CD𐋍
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102CE𐋎
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102CF𐋏
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102D0𐋐
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102D1
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102D2
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102D3
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102D4
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102D5
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102D6
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102D7
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102D8
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102D9
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102DA
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102DB
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102DC
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102DD
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102DE
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102DF
Tabela de Caracteres
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𐊠102A0
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𐊡102A1
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𐊢102A2
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𐊣102A3
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𐊤102A4
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𐊥102A5
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𐊦102A6
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𐊧102A7
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𐊨102A8
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𐊩102A9
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𐊪102AA
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𐊫102AB
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𐊬102AC
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𐊭102AD
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𐊮102AE
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𐊯102AF
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𐊰102B0
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𐊱102B1
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𐊲102B2
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𐊳102B3
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𐊴102B4
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𐊵102B5
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𐊶102B6
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𐊷102B7
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𐊸102B8
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𐊹102B9
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𐊺102BA
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𐊻102BB
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𐊼102BC
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𐊽102BD
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𐊾102BE
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𐊿102BF
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𐋀102C0
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𐋁102C1
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𐋂102C2
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𐋃102C3
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𐋄102C4
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𐋅102C5
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𐋆102C6
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𐋇102C7
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𐋈102C8
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𐋉102C9
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𐋊102CA
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𐋋102CB
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𐋌102CC
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𐋍102CD
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𐋎102CE
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𐋏102CF
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𐋐102D0
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102D1
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102D2
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102D3
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102D4
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102D5
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102D6
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102D7
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102D8
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102D9
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102DA
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102DB
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102DC
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102DD
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102DE
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102DF