Mandaic alphabet

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The Mandaic alphabet is a distinctive script used primarily by the Mandaean religious community to write the Mandaic language, a dialect of Eastern Aramaic.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Mandaic script 4
Mandaic alphabet canonical 2

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (47)

Predicate Object
instanceOf abjad
alphabet
writing system
associatedPeople Mandaeism
surface form: Mandaeans
associatedReligion Gnostic tradition of Mandaeism
communityStatus used by a minority religious community
developedFrom Aramaic alphabet (historically)
surface form: Aramaic alphabet
direction right-to-left
endangeredStatus limited contemporary use
hasDiacritics yes
hasFeature cursive style
distinct letter forms
ligatures
vowel marking integrated into letters
hasLetters 22 consonant letters
historicalPeriod Late Antiquity
languageBranch Eastern Aramaic
languageFamily Aramaic
modernUse community publications
epigraphy
religious manuscripts
primaryUse liturgical texts
magical texts
religious texts
region Mesopotamia
southern Iraq
southwestern Iran
relatedScript Hebrew alphabet
Nabataean alphabet
Syriac alphabet
religiousUse Mandaeism
scriptCategory Middle Eastern script
scriptCodeISO15924 Mand
scriptFamily Aramaic alphabet (historically)
surface form: Aramaic script
standardizedIn Unicode version 6.0
unicodeBlock Mandaic
unicodeRange U+0840–U+085F
usedBy Mandaeism
surface form: Mandaeans
usedFor Mandaic
surface form: Mandaic language
usedIn Ginza Rabba
Mandaean magical bowls
Qolasta
writingDirection right-to-left
writingMedium lead rolls
paper
parchment
writingSystemType consonantal alphabet

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (6)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Aramaic alphabet (historically) ancestorOf Mandaic alphabet
subject surface form: Aramaic alphabet
Mandaic writingSystem Mandaic alphabet
this entity surface form: Mandaic script
Mandaean religious texts script Mandaic alphabet
this entity surface form: Mandaic script
Mandaeism script Mandaic alphabet
this entity surface form: Mandaic script
Eastern Aramaic writingSystem Mandaic alphabet
this entity surface form: Mandaic script
Syriac alphabet influenced Mandaic alphabet