01OVERVIEW
Front Matter
SCRIPT · PROFILE
Old Sogdian
Early script of the Sogdian language, the lingua franca of Silk Road commerce (4th century BC–10th century AD).
Early script of the Sogdian language, the lingua franca of Silk Road commerce (4th century BC–10th century AD). The core of a Eurasian script lineage leading to Uyghur, Mongolian, and Manchu. Sogdian letters found in Turfan (4th century) vividly document Silk Road daily life.
04SPECIMEN
The Letters
Signs · Unicode · TypesSample GlyphsClick to copy
Unicode
Range 1U+10F00–U+10F2F
Total signs40
Unicode Blocks
Not in Unicode
No Unicode block data available for this script.
Glyph evolution
Form change over time
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06MECHANICS
Reading Mechanics
Direction · Method↔
Direction
Right to Left (RTL)
Written right to left.
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System
Abjad
⌨
Input method
Direct Unicode input
Keyboard layout
Standard IME · input chart
Keyboard layout data not yet available.
07LINEAGE
The Lineage
Family · DescendantsPhylogeny
Ancestors & descendants
Phylogeny
Related scripts
Ancestors · Descendants · Family
Ancestors
08REACH