01OVERVIEW
Front Matter
SCRIPT · PROFILE
Psalter Pahlavi
Variant of Pahlavi used to translate the Christian Psalms during the Sasanian Persian period (224–651 AD) — a rare linguistic artifact from an era when Christianity and Zoroastrianism coexisted in the Middle East.
Variant of Pahlavi used to translate the Christian Psalms during the Sasanian Persian period (224–651 AD) — a rare linguistic artifact from an era when Christianity and Zoroastrianism coexisted in the Middle East. The few known manuscripts are invaluable sources for the study of medieval Persian Christianity.
04SPECIMEN
The Letters
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06MECHANICS
Reading Mechanics
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Direction
Right to Left (RTL)
Written right to left.
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System
Abjad
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Input method
Direct Unicode input
Keyboard layout
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07LINEAGE
The Lineage
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Ancestors & descendants
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08REACH