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]

Letters[]

Letters (Isolated Form)

Name[a]	Image	Text	IPA[3]
Aleph