Script - Caucasian Albanian

Caucasian Albanian is a historical script used from antiquity until the early medieval period for writing the Caucasian Albanian language, spoken in the region of modern-day Azerbaijan and southern Dagestan. Its Unicode script value represents a distinct writing system of 53 letters, with a right to left direction, and includes punctuation marks and a numeric value system. The script was likely created in the 5th century AD, attributed to the Armenian monk Mesrop Mashtots, though its origins remain debated. It fell into disuse by the 8th century, leaving few surviving inscriptions, primarily found in the Sinai palimpsests and a handful of stone fragments. The Unicode encoding preserves these glyphs for digital text, enabling scholarly study and potential revival, while distinguishing it from other scripts of the Caucasus region, such as Georgian and Armenian, despite sharing some visual similarities.