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Angular letters cut in stone.
Also known as: Orkhon script, Göktürk script, Turkic runes
The script used for Old Turkic in the inscriptions of the Orkhon valley and the Yenisei.
Writes Old Turkic in the eighth-century monumental inscriptions of Mongolia and southern Siberia.
Contexts: Language and transcription, History
Pairs many consonants into back-vowel and front-vowel forms, so the vowel harmony of the language is carried by the consonant letters and most vowels need not be written at all.
Contexts: Language and transcription, History
Angular letters of straight cut lines, written right to left, with separate letters for consonants paired to back and front vowels.