Script: Qa53

Family: Central Asian

Type: abugida

Whitespace: unspecified

Open Type Tag: none

Complex Positioning: yes

Unicode: true

Diacritics: true

Contextual Forms: true

Status: Historical

Baseline: unspecified

Ligatures: required

Direction: ltr

Direction Notes: LTR (left-to-right)

Turkestani is an early variety of the Brahmi script, adapted with additional diacritics for use with various Central Asian languages including Tocharian, Uygur, and Tumshuqese. There are thought to have been two varieties of the script; North Turkestan Brahmi and South Turkestan Brahmi. It fell out of use following the Muslim invasions of Central Asia during the 7th century CE.

This script is not currently recognized by ISO 15924