id: "Phli" name: "Inscriptional Pahlavi" historical: true family: "Middle Eastern" summary: "Inscriptional Pahlavi is a historical Middle Eastern abjad, written right-to-left. Was presumably used in the 2nd century BCE–5th century CE as a monumental script for Middle Iranian languages. The letters are disconnected. Later evolved into Psalter Pahlavi and Book Pahlavi."