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A script for a closed tradition.
Also known as: Yazidi script
The script used for Kurdish in Yezidi religious manuscripts.
Writes Kurdish in Yezidi religious manuscripts.
Contexts: Language and transcription, History
Confined to the religious writing of a community whose teaching is closed, so the script's corpus is small by design rather than by loss — the absence of material is a feature of the tradition and not an accident of survival.
Contexts: Language and transcription, History
Letters of curved and hooked strokes written right to left, known from a small number of religious manuscripts.