Caucasian Albanian script

Caucasian Albanian
Matenadaran MS No. 7117, fol. 142r
Script type
CreatorMesrop Mashtots
Time period
5th – 12th century AD
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Related scripts
Parent systems
Unknown
ISO 15924
ISO 15924Aghb (239), ​Caucasian Albanian
Unicode
Unicode alias
Caucasian Albanian
U+10530–U+1056F
Final Accepted Script Proposal

The Caucasian Albanian script was an alphabetic writing system used by the Caucasian Albanians, one of the ancient Northeast Caucasian peoples whose territory comprised parts of the present-day Republic of Azerbaijan and Dagestan.

It was used to write the Caucasian Albanian language and was one of only two native scripts ever developed for speakers of an indigenous Caucasian language (i.e., a language that has no genealogical relationship to other languages outside the Caucasus), the other being the Georgian scripts.[1] The Armenian language, the third language of the Caucasus and Armenian Highlands with its own native script, is an independent branch of the Indo-European language family.

  1. ^ Catford, J.C. (1977). "Mountain of Tongues:The Languages of the Caucasus". Annual Review of Anthropology. 6: 283–314 [296]. doi:10.1146/annurev.an.06.100177.001435.

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