were not present in the Syriac language. These were included in Unicode in 2002. 074D ݍ Syriac Letter Sogdian Zhain (compare 0719 ܙ Syriac Letter Zain) 074E ݎ Syriac Letter Sogdian Khaph (versus 071F ܟ Syriac Letter Kaph) – compare initial forms ݎ‍ and ܟ‍ 074F ݏ Syriac Letter Sogdian Fe (compare 0726 ܦ Syriac Letter Pe) Old Sogdian and Sogdian were added to the Unicode Standard in June, 2018 with the release of version 11.0. Blocks The Unicode block for Old Sogdian is U+10F00–U+10F2F and contains 40 characters: The Unicode block for Sogdian is U+10F30–U+10F6F and contains 42 characters: Comparison of Sogdian alphabets Font There are fonts encoding Sogdian alphabets in Unicode - Noto Sans Old Sogdian and Noto Sans Sogdian. See also Sogdian language Manichaean alphabet Syriac alphabet References External links Sample of the Sogdian language and script Ancient Scripts: Sogdian Sogdian at ScriptSource Obsolete writing systems Abjad writing systems Right-to-left writing systems