Old Uyghur alphabet
Type	Abjad
Spoken languages	Uighur
Time period	ca.700s AD – 1800s AD
Parent systems	Egyptian hieroglyphs Proto-Sinaitic Proto-Canaanite alphabet Phoenician Aramaic Syriac Sogdian Old Uyghur alphabet
Child systems	Mongolian Clear script Manchu
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The Old Uyghur alphabet was used for writing the Uyghur language. It was descendant of the Sogdian alphabet, used for texts with Buddhist, Manichaean and Christian content for 700–800 years in Uyghurstan. The last known manuscripts are dated to the 18th century. This was the prototype for the Mongolian and Manchu alphabets.

[edit] See also

• Uyghur alphabet

[edit] External links

• Old Uyghur Alphabet on Omniglot