Sogdian is a
Unicode block
A Unicode block is one of several contiguous ranges of numeric character codes (code points) of the Unicode character set that are defined by the Unicode Consortium for administrative and documentation purposes. Typically, proposals such as the ad ...
containing characters used to write the
Sogdian language
The Sogdian language was an Eastern Iranian languages, Eastern Iranian language spoken mainly in the Central Asian region of Sogdia (capital: Samarkand; other chief cities: Panjakent, Fergana, Khujand, and Bukhara), located in modern-day Uzbekist ...
from the 7th to 14th centuries CE.
Block
History
The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Sogdian block:
Font
There is a Unicode font encoding Sogdian
Noto Sans Sogdian
References
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Unicode blocks