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
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1472710 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
Target entity: Mandaic alphabet Context triple: [Aramaic alphabet, ancestorOf, Mandaic alphabet]
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A.
Nabataean alphabet
The Nabataean alphabet is an ancient Northwest Semitic script used by the Nabataean kingdom, which evolved from the Phoenician writing system and later gave rise to the early Arabic script.
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Palmyrene alphabet
The Palmyrene alphabet is an ancient Aramaic-derived script used in the city of Palmyra in Roman Syria for inscriptions and documents between roughly the 1st century BCE and the 3rd century CE.
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C.
Samaritan script
The Samaritan script is an ancient consonantal writing system used by the Samaritan community to write their version of Hebrew and Aramaic, preserving a distinct tradition separate from mainstream Jewish scripts.
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D.
Sogdian alphabet
The Sogdian alphabet is an ancient Middle Iranian script used by the Sogdian people of Central Asia, notable for its role in transmitting religious and commercial texts along the Silk Road and for influencing later writing systems such as the Old Uyghur and Mongolian scripts.
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E.
Mandaic
Mandaic is an Eastern Aramaic language historically used by the Mandaean religious community, primarily in southern Iraq and southwestern Iran.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: Mandaic alphabet Target entity description: The Mandaic alphabet is a distinctive script used primarily by the Mandaean religious community to write the Mandaic language, a dialect of Eastern Aramaic.
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A.
Nabataean alphabet
The Nabataean alphabet is an ancient Northwest Semitic script used by the Nabataean kingdom, which evolved from the Phoenician writing system and later gave rise to the early Arabic script.
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B.
Palmyrene alphabet
The Palmyrene alphabet is an ancient Aramaic-derived script used in the city of Palmyra in Roman Syria for inscriptions and documents between roughly the 1st century BCE and the 3rd century CE.
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C.
Samaritan script
The Samaritan script is an ancient consonantal writing system used by the Samaritan community to write their version of Hebrew and Aramaic, preserving a distinct tradition separate from mainstream Jewish scripts.
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D.
Sogdian alphabet
The Sogdian alphabet is an ancient Middle Iranian script used by the Sogdian people of Central Asia, notable for its role in transmitting religious and commercial texts along the Silk Road and for influencing later writing systems such as the Old Uyghur and Mongolian scripts.
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E.
Mandaic
Mandaic is an Eastern Aramaic language historically used by the Mandaean religious community, primarily in southern Iraq and southwestern Iran.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
abjad
ⓘ
alphabet ⓘ writing system ⓘ |
| associatedPeople |
Mandaeism
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surface form:
Mandaeans
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| 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
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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
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| standardizedIn | Unicode version 6.0 ⓘ |
| unicodeBlock | Mandaic ⓘ |
| unicodeRange | U+0840–U+085F ⓘ |
| usedBy |
Mandaeism
ⓘ
surface form:
Mandaeans
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| usedFor |
Mandaic
ⓘ
surface form:
Mandaic language
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| usedIn |
Ginza Rabba
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Mandaean magical bowls ⓘ Qolasta ⓘ |
| writingDirection | right-to-left ⓘ |
| writingMedium |
lead rolls
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paper ⓘ parchment ⓘ |
| writingSystemType | consonantal alphabet ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Subject: Mandaic alphabet Description of subject: The Mandaic alphabet is a distinctive script used primarily by the Mandaean religious community to write the Mandaic language, a dialect of Eastern Aramaic.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.