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The link between Sogdian and Mongolian.
Also known as: Uyghur script
The script used across Central Asia for Old Uyghur and later adapted for Mongolian.
Writes Old Uyghur and, in adapted form, several other Central Asian languages.
Contexts: Language and transcription, History
Sits between Sogdian and the Mongolian vertical script in a single documented line of descent, so the chain from a right-to-left Semitic alphabet to a downward-running Central Asian one passes through it and can be traced step by step.
Contexts: Language and transcription, History
Sogdian-derived joined letters written in vertical columns running left to right, with initial, medial and final forms.
Old Uyghur descends from Sogdian and carries its rotation to vertical writing.