id: "Merc"
name: "Meroitic Cursive"
historical: true
family: "Middle Eastern"
summary: "Meroitic Cursive is a historical Middle Eastern abugida, written right-to-left. Was used in 300 BCE–600 CE in today’s Sudan by the Kush (Meroë) people for the Meroitic language. Derived from Demotic Egyptian, used alongside Meroitic Hieroglyphs, and later Coptic. Needs software support for complex text layout (shaping)."