id: "Prti" name: "Inscriptional Parthian" historical: true family: "Middle Eastern" summary: "Inscriptional Parthian is a historical Middle Eastern abjad, written right-to-left. Was used around 250 BC in today’s north-eastern Iran for the Parthian language, and, along with Inscriptional Pahlavi and Psalter Pahlavi, for other Iranian and Indo-European languages. Needs software support for complex text layout (shaping)."