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Old Turkic Script Old Turkic script The Old Turkic script (also known as variously Göktürk script, Orkhon script, Orkhon-Yenisey script, Turkic runes) is the Old Turkic script alphabet used by the Göktürks and other early Turkic khanates Type Alphabet during the 8th to 10th centuries to record the Old Turkic language.[1] Languages Old Turkic The script is named after the Orkhon Valley in Mongolia where early Time 6th to 10th centuries 8th-century inscriptions were discovered in an 1889 expedition by period [2] Nikolai Yadrintsev. These Orkhon inscriptions were published by Parent Proto-Sinaitic(?) Vasily Radlov and deciphered by the Danish philologist Vilhelm systems Thomsen in 1893.[3] Phoenician This writing system was later used within the Uyghur Khaganate. Aramaic Additionally, a Yenisei variant is known from 9th-century Yenisei Syriac Kirghiz inscriptions, and it has likely cousins in the Talas Valley of Turkestan and the Old Hungarian alphabet of the 10th century. Sogdian or Words were usually written from right to left. Kharosthi (disputed) Contents Old Turkic script Origins Child Old Hungarian Corpus systems Table of characters Direction Right-to-left Vowels ISO 15924 Orkh, 175 Consonants Unicode Old Turkic Variants alias Unicode Unicode U+10C00–U+10C4F range See also (https://www.unicode. org/charts/PDF/U10C Notes 00.pdf) References External links Origins According to some sources, Orkhon script is derived from variants of the Aramaic alphabet,[4][5][6] in particular via the Pahlavi and Sogdian alphabets of Persia,[7][8] or possibly via Kharosthi used to write Sanskrit (cf. the inscription at Issyk kurgan). Vilhelm Thomsen (1893) connected the script to the reports of Chinese account (Records of the Grand Historian, vol. 110) from a 2nd-century BCE Yan renegade and dignitary named Zhonghang Yue (Chinese: 中行说; pinyin: Zhōngháng Yuè). Yue "taught the Chanyu (rulers of the Xiongnu) to write official letters to the Chinese court on a wooden tablet (simplified Chinese: 牍; traditional Chinese: 牘; pinyin: dú) 31 cm long, and to use a seal and large-sized folder". The same sources tell that when the Xiongnu noted down something or transmitted a message, they made cuts on a piece of wood (gemu). They also mention a "Hu script". At the Noin-Ula burial site and other Hun burial sites in Mongolia and regions north of Lake Baikal, the artifacts displayed over twenty carved characters. Most of these characters are either identical with or very similar to the letters of the Turkic Orkhon script.[9] Turkic inscriptions dating from earlier than the Orkhon inscriptions used about 150 symbols, which may suggest that tamgas first imitated Chinese script and then gradually was refined into an alphabet. Contemporary Chinese sources conflict as to whether the Turks had a written language by the 6th century. The Book of Zhou, dating to the 7th century, mentions that the Turks had a written language similar to that of the Sogdians. Two other sources, the Book of Sui and the History of the Northern Dynasties claim that the Turks did A copy of Bilge Kağan's stele in [10] not have a written language. According to István Vásáry, Old Ankara, Turkey. Turkic script was invented under the rule of the first khagans and that it was modelled after the Sogdian fashion.[11] Several variants of the script came into being as early as the first half of the 6th century.[12] Corpus The Old Turkic corpus consists of about two hundred[13] inscriptions, plus a number of manuscripts. The inscriptions, dating from the 7th to 10th century, were discovered in present-day Mongolia (the area of the Second Turkic Khaganate and the Uyghur Khaganate that succeeded it), in the upper Yenisey basin of central-south Siberia, and in smaller numbers, in the Altay mountains and Xinjiang. The texts are mostly epitaphs (official or private), but there are also graffiti and a handful of short inscriptions found on archaeological artifacts, including a number of bronze mirrors.[13] The website of the Language Committee of Ministry of Culture and Information of the Republic of Kazakhstan (http://irq.kaznpu.kz/?lan g=e&mod=1&tid=1&oid=15&m=1) lists 54 inscriptions from the Transcription of part of Bilge Kağan's Orkhon area, 106 from the Yenisei area, 15 from the Talas area, and inscription (lines 36-40) 78 from the Altai area. The most famous of the inscriptions are the two monuments (obelisks) which were erected in the Orkhon Valley between 732 and 735 in honor of the Göktürk prince Kül Tigin and his brother the emperor Bilge Kağan. The Tonyukuk inscription, a monument situated somewhat farther east, is slightly earlier, dating to ca. 722. These inscriptions relate in epic language the legendary origins of the Turks, the golden age of their history, their subjugation by the Chinese (Tang-Gokturk wars), and their liberation by Bilge.[14] The Old Turkic manuscripts, of which there are none earlier than the 9th century, were found in present-day Xinjiang and represent Old Uyghur, a different Turkic dialect from the one represented in the Old Turkic inscriptions in the Orkhon valley and elsewhere.[13] They include Irk Bitig, a 9th-century manuscript book on divination. Table of characters Old Turkic being a synharmonic language, a number of consonant signs are divided into two "synharmonic sets", one for front vowels and the other for back vowels. Such vowels can be taken as intrinsic to the consonant sign, giving the Old Turkic alphabet an aspect of an abugida script. In these cases, it is customary to use superscript numerals ¹ and ² to mark consonant signs used with back and front vowels, respectively. This convention was introduced by Thomsen (1893), and followed by Gabain (1941), Malov (1951) and Tekin Location of the Orkhon Valley. (1968). Vowels Orkhon Yenisei Trans- IPA Image Text variants literation ఀ ం ఁ a, ä /ɑ/, /æ/ ః ఄ ı, i /ɯ/, /i/ అ e /e/ Table of characters as published by o, u /o/, /u/ ఆ Thomsen (1893) ఇ ఈ ö, ü /ø/, /y/ Consonants Synharmonic sets Back vowel Front vowel Orkhon Yenisei Trans- Orkhon Yenisei Trans- IPA IPA Image Text variant literation Image Text variant literation ఉ ఊ b¹ /b/ ఋ ఌ b² /b/ ఑ ఒ d¹ /d/ ఓ d² /d/ ఍ ఎ ǧ /ɣ/ ఏ ఐ g /ɡ/ ఞ ట l¹ /l/ ఠ l² /l/ ణ n¹ /n/ త థ n² /n/ ఺ ఻ r¹ /r/ ఼ r² /r/ ఽ s¹ /s/ ా s² /s/ ృ ౄ t¹ /t/ ౅ ె t² /t/ ఖ గ j¹ /j/ ఘ ఙ j² /j/ ఴ వ q /q/ చ ఛ k /k/ oq, uq, qo, /oq/, /uq/, /qo/, ök, ük, /øk/, /yk/, స హ qu, q /qu/, /q/ జ ఝ kö, kü, k /kø/, /ky/, /k/ Other consonantal signs Orkhon Yenisei Trans- IPA Image Text variants literation ల ళ č /tʃ/ ఢ m /m/ య p /p/ [15] ు ూ ీ ి š /ʃ/ ఔ క z /z/ భ బ మ ñ /ŋ/ ఱ ič, či, č /itʃ/, /tʃi/, /tʃ/ శ ష ıq, qı, q /ɯq/, /qɯ/, /q/ న ఩ -nč /ntʃ/ ప ఫ -nj /ɲ/ డ -lt /lt/, /ld/ ద ధ -nt /nt/, /nd/ ే ot, ut[16] /ot/, /ut/ ై baš[17] /baʃ/ A colon-like symbol (⁚) is sometimes used as a word separator.[18] In some cases a ring (⸰) is used instead.[18] A reading example (right to left): ః఼భ౅ ( ) transliterated t²ñr²i, this spells the name of the Turkic sky god, Täñri (/tæŋri/). Variants Variants of the script were found from Mongolia and Xinjiang in the east to the Balkans in the west. The preserved inscriptions were dated to between the 8th and 10th centuries. These alphabets are divided into four groups by Kyzlasov (1994)[20] Asiatic group (includes Orkhon proper) Eurasiatic group Examples of the Orhon-Yenisei alphabet are depicted on the reverse Southern Europe group of the Azerbaijani 5 manat banknote issued since 2006.[19] The Asiatic group is further divided into three related alphabets: Orkhon alphabet, Göktürks, 8th to 10th centuries Yenisei alphabet, Talas alphabet, a derivative of the Yenisei alphabet, Kangly or Karluks 8th to 10th centuries. Talas inscriptions include Terek-Say rock inscriptions found in the 1897, Koysary text, Bakaiyr gorge inscriptions, Kalbak-Tash 6 and 12 inscriptions, Talas alphabet has 29 identified letters.[21] The Eurasiatic group is further divided into five related alphabets: Achiktash, used in Sogdia 8th to 10th centuries. South-Yenisei, used by the Göktürks 8th to 10th centuries. Two especially similar alphabets: the Don alphabet, used by the Khazars, 8th to 10th centuries; and the Kuban alphabet, used by the Bulgars, 8th to 13th centuries. Inscriptions in both alphabets are found in the Pontic– Caspian steppe and on the banks of the Kama river. Tisza, used by the Pechenegs 8th to 10th centuries. A number of alphabets are incompletely collected due to the limitations of the extant inscriptions. Evidence in the study of the Turkic scripts includes Turkic-Chinese bilingual inscriptions, contemporaneous Turkic inscriptions in the Greek alphabet, literal translations into Slavic languages, and paper fragments with Turkic Oldest known Turkic alphabet listings, Ryukoku and Toyok cursive writing from religion, Manichaeism, Buddhist, and legal manuscripts. Toyok manuscript subjects of the 8th to 10th centuries found in Xinjiang. transliterates Turkic alphabet into the Old Uyghur alphabet. Per Кызласов, Unicode Игорь Леонидович (1994). Рунические письменности евразийских степей (https://books. The Unicode block for Old Turkic is U+10C00–U+10C4F. It was google.com/books?id=xVFkAAAAMA added to the Unicode standard in October 2009, with the release of AJ). Восточная литература РАН. version 5.2. It includes separate "Orkhon" and "Yenisei" variants of ISBN 978-5-02-017741-3. individual characters. Since Windows 8 Unicode Old Turkic writing support was added in the Segoe font.
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