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Old Turkic
Sign in to saveAlso known as Orkhon Runic, Orkhon runes, Old Turkic script, Orkhon script, Turkic runes, Orkh
writing system
Key facts
- Script type
- Alphabet
- Period
- 8th to 10th centuries
- Direction
- Right-to-left script
- Languages
- Old Turkic
- Parent systems
- Egyptian hieroglyphics Proto-Sinaitic Phoenician alphabet Aramaic alphabet Syriac alphabet Sogdian alphabet Old Turkic script
- Child systems
- Old Hungarian
- Iso 15924
- Orkh (175) , Old Turkic, Orkhon Runic
- Unicode alias
- Old Turkic
- Unicode range
- U+10C00 – U+10C4F
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Wikidata facts
- Image
- Bilge Khagan inscription lines 36-40 in original Old Turkic script.svg
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- Commons category
- Old Turkic script
- Unicode range
- U+10C00-10C4F
- name
- orkhon
- inception
- 0600-00-00
- end time
- 1000-00-00
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Location of the Orkhon Valley in Asia
The Old Turkic script (also known variously as Göktürk script, Orkhon script, Orkhon-Yenisey script, Turkic runes) was the alphabet used by the Göktürks and other early Turkic khanates from the 8th to 10th centuries to record the Old Turkic language.
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