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A script that travelled with a religion.
The script used for the texts of the Manichaean religion across Iran and Central Asia.
Writes Manichaean religious texts in several languages across Iran and Central Asia.
Contexts: Language and transcription, History
Carried across languages by a religion rather than by a state or a people, so the same script writes Middle Persian, Parthian, Sogdian and Old Uyghur — the script marks a faith and its readers, not a tongue.
Contexts: Language and transcription, History
Aramaic-derived letters written right to left in a clear separated hand, with coloured headings and decorated initials in surviving manuscripts.
A fuller structured visual breakdown is not yet documented for this symbol.