The Sogdian alphabet was the script originally used for the Sogdian language, a language in the Iranian family used by the people of Sogdia. The Sogdian alphabet is one of three scripts used to write
Manichaean letter in the Sogdian language and alphabet
Sogdian script on the Bugut Inscription (585), central Mongolia. Sogdian is the distant ancestor of the Mongolian script.
The Sogdian language was an Eastern Iranian language spoken mainly in the Central Asian region of Sogdia, located in modern-day Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan; it was also spoken by
Sogdian alphabet
…The Sogdian alphabet was the script originally used for the Sogdian language, a language in the Iranian family used by the people of Sogdia. The Sogdian alphabet is one of three scripts used to write the Sogdian language, the…
Seal with two facing busts and Sogdian inscription "Indamic, Queen of Zacanta", Kushano-Sasanian period, 300-350 CE. British Museum 119999.
Manichaean priests (Uyghur Turks) writing Sogdian manuscripts, in Khocho, Tarim Basin, c. 8th/9th century AD
Sogdian Christian text written in Estrangelo, discovered at Turpan, 9th—11th century.