Old Uyghur alphabet
historic Sogdian-based alphabet
The Old Uyghur alphabet is the alphabet that was used to write the Old Uyghur language. It comes from the Sogdian alphabet. It is not to be confused with the modern Uyghur Arabic alphabet used to write the modern Uyghur language. The modern alphabet comes from the Arabic alphabet.
| Old Uyghur alphabet | |
|---|---|
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| Script type | |
Time period | ca.700s–1800s |
| Direction | horizontal and vertical writing in East Asian scripts, top-to-bottom  Vertical (left-to-right); Horizontal (right-to-left), used in modern printing, especially in multi-lingual publications |
| Languages | Old Uyghur, Western Yugur |
| Related scripts | |
Parent systems | |
Child systems | Traditional Mongolian alphabet |
| Unicode | |
| U+10F70–U+10FAF | |