01OVERVIEW
Front Matter
SCRIPT · PROFILE
Marchen
Script for the Zhang-Zhung kingdom language of western Tibet — the heartland of Bön civilization, predating Tibetan Buddhism.
Script for the Zhang-Zhung kingdom language of western Tibet — the heartland of Bön civilization, predating Tibetan Buddhism. Marchen shows Tibetan influence but has its own independent system and is still found in Bön religious texts. The Zhang-Zhung language itself has not yet been fully decoded.
04SPECIMEN
The Letters
Signs · Unicode · TypesSample GlyphsClick to copy
Glyph evolution
Form change over time
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06MECHANICS
Reading Mechanics
Direction · Method↔
Direction
Left to Right (LTR)
Written left to right.
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System
Abugida
⌨
Input method
Direct Unicode input
Keyboard layout
Standard IME · input chart
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07LINEAGE
The Lineage
Family · DescendantsPhylogeny
Ancestors & descendants
Phylogeny
08REACH