Pahlavi script - Pahlavi characters

Japanese: パフラビー文字 - パフラビーもじ
Pahlavi script - Pahlavi characters
The Pahlavi script used to write Zoroastrian texts since the late Sassanid Persian period. It originated from the Aramaic alphabet, which consisted of 22 consonant letters. As it was used to write Iranian languages, some of the letters were used exclusively for Aramaic ideograms or were not used at all. Of the remaining letters, g, d, y, ' (aleph), h, w, n, and r all became identical, eventually numbering just 14.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:
ササン朝ペルシア後期以後ゾロアスター教の書物を記すのに用いられているパフラビー語の文字。起源は22の子音文字から成るアラム文字で,これがイラン系の言語を写すのに用いられるようになると,いくつかの文字はアラム語系のイデオグラム(表意文字)のみに用いられるか,あるいはまったく用いられなくなり,また残りの文字のうちgとdとy,’(アレフ)とh,wとnとrがそれぞれまったく同形となって最終的には14文字を数えるのみとなった。

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