- Old Persian cuneiform
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Old Persian Cuneiform Type Semisyllabary Languages Old Persian Time period 525 BC – 330 BC Parent systems Cuneiform script- Old Persian Cuneiform
ISO 15924 Xpeo, 030 Direction Left-to-right Unicode alias Old Persian Unicode range U+103A0–U+103D5 Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols. Old Persian cuneiform is a semi-alphabetic cuneiform script that was the primary script for the Old Persian language. Texts written in this cuneiform were found in Persepolis, Susa, Hamadan, Armenia, and along the Suez Canal.[1] They were mostly inscriptions from the time period of Darius the Great and his son Xerxes. Later kings down to Artaxerxes III used corrupted forms of the language classified as “pre-Middle Persian”.[1]
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Old Persian cuneiform is loosely inspired by the Sumero-Akkadian cuneiform; however, only one glyph, l(a) (
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