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Old Turkic
Sign in to saveAlso known as Orkhon Runic, Orkhon runes, Old Turkic script, Orkhon script, Turkic runes, Orkh
writing system
Key facts
- Script type
- Alphabet
- Period
- 8th to 10th centuries
- Direction
- Right-to-left script
- Languages
- Old Turkic
- Parent systems
- Egyptian hieroglyphics Proto-Sinaitic Phoenician alphabet Aramaic alphabet Syriac alphabet Sogdian alphabet Old Turkic script
- Child systems
- Old Hungarian
- Iso 15924
- Orkh (175) , Old Turkic, Orkhon Runic
- Unicode alias
- Old Turkic
- Unicode range
- U+10C00 – U+10C4F
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Location of the Orkhon Valley in Asia
The Old Turkic script (also known variously as Göktürk script, Orkhon script, Orkhon-Yenisey script, Turkic runes) was the alphabet used by the Göktürks and other early Turkic khanates from the 8th to 10th centuries to record the Old Turkic language.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Old Turkic” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.