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Pahlavi Script

The right-to-left script of Middle Persian, used for the Zoroastrian books of the Sasanian era, famous for its Aramaic heterograms read aloud as Persian words.

Languages Written in This Script

The Codex Gigas, the largest surviving medieval illuminated manuscript

Extinct Middle Persian (Pahlavi) The language of the Zoroastrian books of the Sasanian and early Islamic centuries. Indo-European

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