Before the advance of
Islam in
Transoxiana (early 8th century), Khwarezmian was written in a script close to that of Sogdian and
Pahlavi with its roots in the
Imperial Aramaic script. From the few surviving examples of this script on coins and artifacts, it has been observed that written Khwarezmian included Aramaic
logograms or
ideograms, that is Aramaic words written to represent native spoken ones e.g. 𐿃𐾾𐿄 (ŠNT) for سرذ,
sarδ, "year", 𐾾𐿁𐿃𐾺 (NPŠY) for خداک,
xudāk, "self" and 𐾽𐾼𐾻𐾰 (MLK') for اى شاه,
ī šah, "the king". }}}}} After the advance of Islam, Khwarezmian was written using an adapted version of the
Perso-Arabic alphabet with a few extra signs to reflect specific Khwarezmian sounds, such as the letter
څ which represents /ts/ and /dz/, as in the traditional
Pashto orthography.
Unicode Khwarezmian script was added to the
Unicode Standard in March, 2020 with the release of version 13.0. The Unicode block for Khwarezmian, called Chorasmian, is U+10FB0–U+10FDF: ==See also==