ISO 15924
Qa46
Family
Central Asian
Type
abjad
Direction
unspecified
Baseline
unspecified
Word separation
unspecified
Ligatures
unspecified
Status
Historical
Unicode
true

The Old Uighur language is an extinct variety of Old Turkic spoken in the Tarim basin. It is an ancestor of the modern Uyghur language. The language was written using what has been described as an “alphabetized abjad”, with matres lectionis used for indicating both long and short vowels. The Old Uighur script was the prototype for the Mongolian and Manchu scripts.

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