Psalter Pahlavi is a cursive abjad that was used for writing Middle Persian on paper. It is described as one of the Pahlavi scripts. It was written from right to left, and usually with spaces between words.
It takes its name from the Pahlavi Psalter, part of the Psalms translated from Syriac to Middle Persian and found in what is now western China.
Four different large section-ending punctuation marks were used:
Psalter Pahlavi had its own numerals:
Some numerals have joining behaviorâÂÂwith both numerals and lettersâÂÂdisplayed by the use of written numbers in numerals. Numerals are written right-to-left, the rightmost being the highestâÂÂwith the exception of multiplication. Numerals add when the one to the left is lower or equal, but multiply when it is larger. There is, in all but one of the numerals, above 100âÂÂin the Unicode documentâÂÂthe letter Waw () meaning âÂÂandâ between 100 and the smaller numeral.
Example: 135 is written as (100 and 20 + 10 + 3 + 2).
Psalter Pahlavi script was added to the Unicode Standard in June, 2014 with the release of version 7.0.
The Unicode block is U+10B80–U+10BAF: