Psalter Pahlavi

Psalter Pahlavi
Psalter Pahlavi;
	Sample of text taken from the Cross of Herat
Script type	Abjad
Time period	Mid-6th to 7th century CE
Direction	Right-to-left script
Languages	Middle Persian
Related scripts
Parent systems	Aramaic alphabet Pahlavi scripts Psalter Pahlavi; ;
ISO 15924
ISO 15924	Phlp (132), Psalter Pahlavi
Unicode
Unicode alias	Psalter Pahlavi
Unicode range	U+10B80–U+10BAF

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Psalter Pahlavi is a cursive abjad that was used for writing Middle Persian on paper; it is thus described as one of the Pahlavi scripts.^[1] It was written right to left, usually with spaces between words.^[1]

It takes its name from the Pahlavi Psalter, part of the Psalms translated from Syriac to Middle Persian and found in what is now western China.^[2]

^ ^a ^b Everson, Michael; Pournader, Roozbeh (2011-05-06). "N4040: Proposal for encoding the Psalter Pahlavi script in the SMP of the UCS" (PDF). Working Group Document, ISO/IEC JTC1/SC2/WG2.
^ Encyclopædia Iranica: Pahlavi Psalter

[N4040-1] Everson, Michael; Pournader, Roozbeh (2011-05-06). "N4040: Proposal for encoding the Psalter Pahlavi script in the SMP of the UCS" (PDF). Working Group Document, ISO/IEC JTC1/SC2/WG2.

[2] Encyclopædia Iranica: Pahlavi Psalter

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