Unicode Block - Lycian

Lycian is a historical script used to write the Lycian language, which was spoken in ancient Anatolia, primarily in the region of Lycia, during the first millennium BCE. This alphabet, derived from the Greek script with some additional characters for native sounds, appears in inscriptions dating from roughly the fifth to the fourth centuries BCE, often found on stone monuments, tombs, and coins. The characters in this range are encoded with right-to-left directionality, reflecting the typical writing direction of the original texts, and they include distinct letters for vowel and consonant sounds, some of which are unique to the Lycian phonetic system.