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A script built to record sound exactly.
Also known as: Zoroastrian scripture script
The script devised to write the Avesta with full phonetic precision.
Writes the Avestan language of the Zoroastrian scriptures with complete vowel and consonant notation.
Contexts: Language and transcription, History
Created specifically because the existing script was too ambiguous to preserve a recitation that had to be exact, so the alphabet was expanded until nothing was left to inference — the same motive as the Masoretic pointing and the Vedic accents.
Contexts: Language and transcription, History
A large set of letters with full vowel notation, written right to left, developed from the Pahlavi cursive.