Iranian Script Family (Scripts and Alphabets)

Writing systems used for the Iranian languages of Zoroastrian and Manichaean religion, including the Avestan alphabet devised to record the sacred texts and the Pahlavi scripts used for Middle Persian books. An entry belongs here when its article places the script among the Iranian scripts or derives it from an Aramaic base adapted for an Iranian language. It excludes the Arabic script as later used for Persian.