Hatran
Script details
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| Code | Hatr |
| Script type | abjad |
| Region | Middle Eastern |
| Status | Historical |
| Direction | RTL |
| Baseline | unspecified |
| Case | unknown |
| White space | unspecified |
| Complex behaviors | |
| OpenType code | hatr |
| ISO 15924 Number | 127 (right-to-left alphabetic) |
Script description
Section titled “Script description”Hatran writing was discovered in 1912 in present-day al-Hadr, an ancient city in the al-Jazira region of Iraq which used to be called Hatra.
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Over 100 stone inscriptions were uncovered by archaeologists working for Iraqi Department of Antiquities; since then approximately 500 more texts have been discovered. Most of these were short, and as a result it has been difficult to deduce a great deal about the Aramaic dialect, called Aramaic of Hatra, which the script represented.
The Hatran script is an abjad; vowels were not written but matres lectiones were sometimes used to indicate the long vowels /o:/ and /ı:/.
Languages that use this script
Section titled “Languages that use this script”| Language | Writing System Code | Writing System Status | SLDR/CLDR locale | Regional variants |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE) | arc-Hatr | in use | arc-Hatr-XX | |
| Uncoded languages | mis-Hatr | in use | mis-Hatr-001 mis-Hatr-IQ (Iraq) |
Unicode status
Section titled “Unicode status”In The Unicode Standard, Hatran script implementation is discussed in Chapter 10 Middle East-II: Ancient Scripts
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Resources
Section titled “Resources”- ScriptSource page for Hatran script - all about scripts, languages, and writing systems