Ottoman Turkish alphabet
| Ottoman Turkish alphabet | |
|---|---|
| Script type | |
Period | 1299–1928 |
| Direction | Right-to-left script |
| Languages | Ottoman Turkish |
| Related scripts | |
Parent systems | Egyptian hieroglyphs
|
Child systems | |
| ISO 15924 | |
| ISO 15924 | Arab (160), Arabic |
| Unicode | |
Unicode alias | Arabic |
The Ottoman Turkish alphabet (Ottoman Turkish: الفبا, romanized: elifbâ) is a version of the Perso-Arabic script used to write Ottoman Turkish for over 600 years until 1928, when it was replaced by the Latin-based modern Turkish alphabet.
Though Ottoman Turkish was primarily written in this script, non-Muslim Ottoman subjects sometimes wrote it in other scripts, including Armenian, Greek, Latin and Hebrew alphabets.