Lydian alphabet
Alphabet used to write the Lydian language / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Lydian script was used to write the Lydian language. Like other scripts of Anatolia in the Iron Age, the Lydian alphabet is based on the Phoenician alphabet. It is related to the East Greek alphabet, but it has unique features.
Lydian | |
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Script type | Alphabet
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Time period | 700-200 BCE |
Direction | Right-to-left script |
Languages | Lydian language |
Related scripts | |
Parent systems | |
Sister systems | Some other alphabets of Asia Minor |
ISO 15924 | |
ISO 15924 | Lydi (116), Lydian |
Unicode | |
Unicode alias | Lydian |
U+10920–U+1093F | |
This article contains phonetic transcriptions in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). For an introductory guide on IPA symbols, see Help:IPA. For the distinction between [ ], / / and ⟨ ⟩, see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters. |
The first modern codification of the Lydian alphabet was made by Roberto Gusmani in 1964, in a combined lexicon, grammar, and text collection.
Early Lydian texts were written either from left to right or from right to left. Later texts all run from right to left. One surviving text is in the bi-directional boustrophedon manner. Spaces separate words except in one text that uses dots instead. Lydian uniquely features a quotation mark in the shape of a triangle.[2]