Caucasian Albanian script
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The Caucasian Albanian script was an alphabetic writing system used by the Caucasian Albanians, one of the ancient Northeast Caucasian peoples whose territory comprised parts of the present-day Republic of Azerbaijan and Dagestan.
Caucasian Albanian | |
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Script type | |
Creator | Mesrop Mashtots |
Time period | 5th – 12th century AD |
Direction | Left-to-right |
Related scripts | |
Parent systems | Unknown
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ISO 15924 | |
ISO 15924 | Aghb (239), Caucasian Albanian |
Unicode | |
Unicode alias | Caucasian Albanian |
U+10530–U+1056F Final Accepted Script Proposal |
It was used to write the Caucasian Albanian language and was one of only two native scripts ever developed for speakers of an indigenous Caucasian language (i.e., a language that has no genealogical relationship to other languages outside the Caucasus), the other being the Georgian scripts.[1] The Armenian language, the third language of the Caucasus and Armenian Highlands with its own native script, is an independent branch of the Indo-European language family.