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	Mongol Scripts
		During the height of the Empire of the 13th to 14th centuries, many of the administrators, such as Juvayni, were from the Middle East and employed these abjads, or consonant alphabets, as their primary scripts for writing documents.
		This alphabetic script was developed in 1905 by a Buryat monk named Agwan-Dorji (1850-1938) as a variation of Uighur Script with less ambiguity.
		The letters of this syllabic alphabet are based on his native Tibetan script but contain other influences such as being written vertically like the Uighur Script and grouped into syllables like Khitan Small Script.
	www.viahistoria.com /SilverHorde/research/MongolScripts.html

	How to read and write Mongolian characters
		The Mongol language-script is called the het "Sogdian Script" and is related to the Tibetan script.
		het Mongoolse script behoort tot het "Sogdian Script" en is verwant met dat van het Tibetaans.
		You will find the digital Mongolian alphabet at this site.
	www.xs4all.nl /~wjsn/mongol.htm

	Production First Software Encyclopedia of Typography and Electronic Communication : S
		The Semitic scripts include Akkadian (dead), Amharic, Amorite (dead), Arabic, Aramaic, Ethiopic, Geez (dead), Gurage, Harari, Hebrew, Maltese, Manchu, Mandaean (dead), Moabite (dead), Mongolian, Palmyrene (dead), Phoenician (dead), Sogdian (dead), Syriac-Nestoric (dead), Tifinagh, Tigrinya, Tigre, and Ugaritic (dead).
		This plane is intended to encode all other significant scripts of the world (mostly extinct), except CJKV unified ideographs, additional miscellaneous alphabets, and additional symbols not included in the BMP.
		Some identical languages (Croatian and Serbian) are written in different scripts (Latin and Cyrillic, respectively); while the same script may be used to write different languages, some of which can also be represented in their native script (Latin script for Germanic and Romance languages, Japanese (Romaji), Pinyin Chinese, and Urdu).
	ourworld.compuserve.com /homepages/profirst/s.htm

	ipedia.com: Sogdian alphabet Article
		The Sogdian alphabet is derived from Syraic, the parent script of Aramaic.
		It is occaisionally known as the sutra script, was similar to the script of the Ancient Letters used in writing on papyri.
		Many Buddhist texts as well as all secular material such as letters, legal documents, coin legends, and inscriptions were written in this script.
	www.ipedia.com /sogdian_alphabet.html

	IL&S: Sogdian Language & Scripts
		Sogdian script- Also known as the sutra script, was similar to the script of the Ancient Letters used in writing on papyri.
		The Sogdian material sources can be divided into the Ancient Letters, the documents from Tajikestan, the rock inscriptions of North Pakistan, and the religious texts of Buddhism, Manichaeism, and Christianity.
		The Sogdian Christian scribes added three new characters f, x, ž to the 22 letters of the Syriac alphabet in order to better distinguish the Sogdian consonants.
	iranianlanguages.com /midiranian/sogdian.htm

	Sogdian alphabet - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Sogdian alphabet is derived from Syriac, the descendant script of Aramaic alphabet.
		Mongolian alphabet proper still uses this kind of vertical writing, introduced by Sogdians.
		Sogdian was written either in horizontal and sometimes in vertical direction, the latter probably under chinese influence, but with first vertical line starting from the left side, not from the right one as in Chinese, most probably because
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sogdian_alphabet

	THE ALPHABET A Key to the History of Mankind
		Offshoots of the Etruscan alphabet: alphabet of the Piceni; Ventic alphabet; North Etruscan alphabets; Italic scripts: Oscan alphabet; Umbrian alphabet; Siculan alphabet; Latinian alphabets: Faliscan alphabet.
		In the first part a historical sketch of the development of the non-alphabetic scripts is discussed and the second part deals with the origin and development of alphabet.
		More space is devoted to less-known problems, to those which present more interest from the standpoint of the history of writing, to the origins of some single scripts, to the connection between the various system, and so forth rather than deal with all the alphabets of all the modern nations of the world.
	www.exoticindiaart.com /book/details/IDD824

	IL&S: Sogdian Language & Scripts
		The Sogdian material sources can be divided into the Ancient Letters, the documents from Tajikestan, the rock inscriptions of North Pakistan, and the religious texts of Buddhism, Manichaeism, and Christianity.
		Sogdian script - Also known as the sutra script, was similar to the script of the Ancient Letters used in writing on papyri.
		The territory of Sogdian language bordered on the area of Persian speech in the west and extending the walls of China in the east.
	www.iranianlanguages.com /midiranian/sogdian.htm

	Manchu language
		Its script is vertically written and taken from the Mongolian alphabet (which in turn derives from Aramaic via Uighur and Sogdian).
		He decried the fact that while illiterate Chinese and Mongolians could understand their respective languages when read aloud, that was not the case for the Manchus, whose documents were recorded by Mongolian scribes.
		According to the Veritable Records (manju-i yargiyan kooli, Chinese: &;), in 1599 the Manchu leader Nurhaci decided to convert the Mongolian alphabet to make it suitable for the Manchu people.
	www.nebulasearch.com /encyclopedia/article/Manchu_language.html

	IL&S: Sogdian Language & Scripts
		The Sogdian material sources can be divided into the Ancient Letters, the documents from Tajikestan, the rock inscriptions of North Pakistan, and the religious texts of Buddhism, Manichaeism, and Christianity.
		Sogdian script- Also known as the sutra script, was similar to the script of the Ancient Letters used in writing on papyri.
		The Yaghnabi dialect, still spoken in Tajikestan, is believed to be the direct descendant of a variant of Sogdian.
	iranianlanguages.com /midiranian/sogdian.htm

	Orkhon alphabet
		The Orkhon alphabet is thought to have been derived from or inspired by a non-cursive version of the Sogdian script.
		By the 9th century AD, the Orkhon and Yenisei alphabets were replaced by the Uighur alphabet, which developed from the cursive version of the Sogdian script.
		Because of a superficial resemblance to the Runic alphabet, the alphabet is also known as Orkhon or Turkic runes.
	www.omniglot.com /writing/orkhon.htm

	Sogdian alphabet - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Sogdian alphabet is derived from Syriac, the descendant script of Aramaic alphabet.
		Zoroastrian texts as well as all secular material such as letters, legal documents, coin legends, and inscriptions were written in this script.
		Sogdian was written either in horizontal and sometimes in vertical direction, the latter probably under chinese influence, but with first vertical line starting from the left side, not from the right one as in Chinese, most probably because
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sogdian_alphabet

	Orkhon alphabet
		The Orkhon alphabet is thought to have been derived from or inspired by a non-cursive version of the Sogdian script.
		By the 9th century AD, the Orkhon and Yenisei alphabets were replaced by the Uighur alphabet, which developed from the cursive version of the Sogdian script.
		They date from the early 8th century AD and the script in which they are written is known as the Orkhon alphabet.
	www.omniglot.com /writing/orkhon.htm (297 words)

	Articles - Georgian alphabet
		Sogdian scripts, while the left-to-right writing direction and the order of the alphabet are
		Examples of it are still preserved in monumental inscriptions, such as those of the Georgian church in Bethlehem in 430, and the church of Bolnisi Sioni near Tbilisi (4th-5th centuries).
		Most western scholars attribute the first extant example of Georgian script to be that of the Georgian church in Bethlehem dating from the fifth century AD and not a millenium older.
	www.free-biz.org /articles/Georgian_alphabet (297 words)

	The Uighurs
		Confederated with the Kok Turks in the 6th and 7th centuries, they used the Orkhon script, which was developed from the Sogdian alphabet.
		This script was used for almost 800 years not only by the Uighurs, but also by other Turkic peoples, the Mongols, and by the Manchus in the early stage of their rule in China.
		The Uighurs of Eastern Turkestan use the Arabic and Latin alphabets and the Uighurs of Turkey use the Latin alphabet.
	the_uighurs.tripod.com (297 words)

	IITS - Lexicon of Iranian Languages (SD-Introduction)
		The Script Symbol represents the script with which the source text of the Sogdian word was written: B for Buddhist, C for Christian, M for Manichean and S for secular Sogdian texts.
		The latter incorporate entries of words, key words and phrases arranged alphabetically, with each entry giving the sequential number(s) of the relevant Sogdian word(s) in the Lexicon.
		Sogdian loan-words in Persian are given in the Persian Meaning; so are the names of months, days and feasts from the works of Beruni, as well as certain grammatical notes.
	www.uni-koeln.de /phil-fak/indologie/lil/sd-intro.html (297 words)

	Sogd - history
		The Sogdian script was widely spread during the early Middle Ages both in the Sogdian-speaking lands and in others, where other languages were spoken.
		Sogdian was the language of the international exchange thanks to both the wide commercial and colonisation activities of the Sogdians, and the important administrative role it played in the Turkic khaganates
		Sogdian legends appear on the coins of Khorezm, Tokharistan, Ferghana, besides the already mentioned Chach, Ustrushana and Semirech'e.
	www.kroraina.com /ca/h_sogd.html (297 words)

	Mongolian alphabet - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Intermediate between these is the Mongolian script proper, which was derived in the 12th-13th centuries from the Uyghur alphabet, a descendant of Sogdian alphabet that came from Syriac alphabet.
		Besides the Mongolian language, the Evenk language is written in the Mongolian script.
		Perhaps its two most notable features are that it is a vertical script, and that it is the only such script that is written from left to right.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mongolian_alphabet (297 words)

	Sogdian Language Script Persian Middle Sogdiana Iranian Corpus
		Sogdian alphabet The Sogdian alphabet is derived from Syriac, the descendant script of Aramaic alphabet.
		Evidence of early Sogdian script has been found in Sogdiana.
		Sogdian Rock Sogdian Rock or Rock of Ariamazes a fortress in Sogdiana was captured by the forces of Alexander the Great in 328 or 327 BC.
	www.economicexpert.com /a/Sogdian:language.htm (297 words)

	Mongolian Language Mongoluls.Net
		The traditional script of Mongolian, also revered to as Uighur script, oritinate of Sogdian letters of Aramaic origin.
		After the political developments in 1990 it was expected that the democratic revolution would trigger the revival of the old script, but apart from some offical uses and the education system it plays no significant role.
		"The Uighur script is cursive, therefore it is possible that each letter has as many as 3 different shapes depending on whether the letter appears in an initial, medial, or final position." More on the traditional script
	mongoluls.net /mongolianlanguage/index.shtml (297 words)

	Script Tutorial 1
		The Uighurs themselves had acquired this script as a result of their contacts with the Sogdianâs, an Old Iranian people who had in turn borrowed their script from Syriac.
		The old script was eventually abandoned in the former Mongolian People's Republic where, in 1941, it was replaced by a variation of the Cyrillic alphabet.
		The Uighur script is cursive, therefore it is possible that each letter has as many as 3 different shapes depending on whether the letter appears in an initial, medial, or final position.
	www.linguamongolia.co.uk /script1.html (297 words)

	Orkhon script - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Orkhon script goes by several names: the Kokturk, Kok Turki, Gokturk, Gök-Turk, and Kök-Turk Alphabet, and, because of its superficial "runiform" appearance, it is sometimes called Orkhon runes or Turkic runes.
		After the decline of the Kokturks, the Uyghurs introduced their own Sogdian-derived alphabet, and this was passed to the Mongols and the
		The oldest examples of this alphabet are stone inscriptions such as the Orkhon inscriptions from the Orhon River valley in the
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Orkhon_script (297 words)

	Green Forms Script - Surch
		The Sogdian alphabet is derived from Syraic, the parent script of Aramaic.
		A methodology becomes a 'script' that uses particular forms of rhetoric to be...
		An orginization of script kiddiesscript kiddie known in Counter-Strike for it's use of exploits ==...
	www.surch.co.uk /green+forms+script (297 words)

	Production First Software Encyclopedia of Typography and Electronic Communication : S
		The Semitic scripts include Akkadian (dead), Amharic, Amorite (dead), Arabic, Aramaic, Ethiopic, Geez (dead), Gurage, Harari, Hebrew, Maltese, Manchu, Mandaean (dead), Moabite (dead), Mongolian, Palmyrene (dead), Phoenician (dead), Sogdian (dead), Syriac-Nestoric (dead), Tifinagh, Tigrinya, Tigre, and Ugaritic (dead).
		Scripting language text, comprised of individual commands, is placed in a script file, the contents of which are then executed at a later time by the operating system or application.
		Typographically speaking, the distinction between calligraphic and script typefaces is that calligraphic typefaces have unconnected letterforms or letterforms which look like they were intended to be unconnected; whereas script typefaces are designed with letterforms that look connected or with a suggestion that they were meant to be.
	ourworld.compuserve.com /homepages/profirst/s.htm (297 words)

	The Uighurs
		Confederated with the Kok Turks in the 6th and 7th centuries, they used the Orkhon script, which was developed from the Sogdian alphabet.
		This script was used for almost 800 years not only by the Uighurs, but also by other Turkic peoples, the Mongols, and by the Manchus in the early stage of their rule in China.
		After embracing Islam in the 10th century the Uighurs adopted the Arabic alphabet, and its use became common in the 11th century.
	the_uighurs.tripod.com (849 words)

	i18n.ltm
		It is relatively sparsely attested.]]} {south-iberian, description, [[The script is partly alphabetic and partly syllabic, and its ancestry is unknown, though clearly Greek or Semitic.
		The scripts in this group are the descendants of the southern variant.]]} {greek-f, definition, [[Contains the greek alphabet and all its descendants, which are also alphabets.
		The scripts in this group are the descendants of the northern variant.]]} {south-semitic, definition, [[The ancestral northern linear abjad quickly developed distinct northern and southern variants.
	www.accountingontology.com /omnigator/docs/i18n.ltm (849 words)

	Script Tutorial 1
		However, where Syriac and Sogdian were written horizontally right to left, Uighur and Mongolian are written vertically left to right.
		The Uighurs themselves had acquired this script as a result of their contacts with the Sogdianâs, an Old Iranian people who had in turn borrowed their script from Syriac.
		The old script was eventually abandoned in the former Mongolian People's Republic where, in 1941, it was replaced by a variation of the Cyrillic alphabet.
	www.linguamongolia.co.uk /script1.html (849 words)

	Orthography Examples
		King Sejong of the fifteenth century commissioned the production of a phonetic alphabet of 28 letters to be used for writing Korean, but Chinese script continued to be used for notating Korean until well into the nineteenth/twentieth century.
		This method of writing (so-called Ômixed scriptÕ) was abandoned in North Korea after 1945, and attempts are being made to phase it out in South Korea.
		According to Poppe (1964), the classical written language is still used by Khalkhas and Buryats for private purposes.
	logos.uoregon.edu /explore/orthography/examples.html (849 words)

	An Introduction to the Turkic Tribes
		They adapted the Sogdian alphabet to their dialect of Turkish, which remained the script for the writen form of their language until the Arabic was adopted in the eleventh century.
		However, Bilge ordered for his brother, himself and their wise chamberlain Tonyukuk, monumental tombstones with so-called Runic scripture (so-called because of the resemblance, it's actually written in a phonetical Turkic alphabet), carved in Turkish and Chinese (iirc).
		It was taught at the Ottoman court until Bayezid II (who reigned in 1481 - 1512).
	www.kessler-web.co.uk /History/FeaturesFarEast/TurkicIntro.htm (849 words)

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