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Front Matter

Caucasian Albanian

Christian liturgical script of the Caucasian Albanian kingdom in Azerbaijan (5th century).

𐔰 𐔱 𐔲 𐔳 𐔴 𐔵 𐔶 𐔷
Era
Ancient
Region
Caucasus
System
Alphabet
Direction
Left to Right (LTR)
Signs
52
Status
Extinct
Christian liturgical script of the Caucasian Albanian kingdom in Azerbaijan (5th century). Became known to modern scholars when palimpsests were discovered at Saint Catherine's Monastery on the Sinai Peninsula in the 1990s. Genealogically related to the Armenian alphabet, with 52 signs. Added to Unicode in 2015. The Udi people, an ethnic minority in Azerbaijan, speak the modern descendant language of this script.
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The Letters

Signs · Unicode · Types
Sample GlyphsClick to copy
Unicode
Range 1U+10530–U+1056F
Total signs52
In Unicode53
Unicode Blocks
Caucasian Albanian
10530 – 1056F
53 chars→
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Reading Mechanics

Direction · Method
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Direction
Left to Right (LTR)
좌→우 (LTR)
α
System
Alphabet
⌨
Input method
Direct Unicode input
Keyboard layout
Standard IME · input chart
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The Lineage

Family · Descendants
Phylogeny
Descendants of hieroglyphs
Phylogeny
Related scripts
Ancestors · Descendants · Family

Ancestors

Armenian Alphabet

Same family

Armenian AlphabetCaucasian Albanian
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In the World

Usage · Reach

Languages

Caucasian Albanian

Countries

Azerbaijan