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The Aryan (Old Persian) Alphabet


 

 

Darius I (the Great) 522-486 BCE is credited for the invention of Old Persian (Aryan) Cuneiform. 

 

The Old Persian Cuneiform glyphs are both phonemic and syllabic and there are five logograms which represent commonly used words.

 

It consists of thirty-six signs indicating syllables and eight ideograms for the words 'king', 'country' (2x) 'good', 'god', 'earth', and 'Ahuramazda' (3x). A slanting wedge (\) is used as a word divider.

 

This alphabet was mainly used for royal inscriptions; the last text in the 'Aryan script' can be dated to the fourth century BCE.

 

 

 

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