Unicode Block - Old Uyghur

Old Uyghur is a script historically used for writing the Uyghur language, derived from the Sogdian alphabet and ancestral to the modern Mongolian script, featuring a vertical-to-horizontal cursive style with connected letters and no distinct upper- or lowercase forms. Its characters include consonants and a limited set of vowel indicators, often written without word separation, and the script was employed across Central Asia from the 8th to the 17th centuries for religious, legal, and literary texts. The codified set of these glyphs preserves the orthographic conventions of that era, including ligatures and variant letter forms, enabling digital representation of manuscripts and inscriptions for scholarly study and linguistic analysis.