Apr 22, 2022 · They date from the early 8th century AD and the script in which they are written is known as the Orkhon alphabet, or the Old Turkic script, the Göktürk script, or the Orkhon-Yenisey script. Inscriptions dating from the later 8th century AD in a slight variant of the Orkhon alphabet, known as Yenisei or Siberian runes, have also been found ...

Old Turkic (also East Old Turkic, Orkhon Turkic language, Old Uyghur) is the earliest attested form of the Turkic languages, found in Göktürk and Uyghur Khaganate inscriptions dating from about the eighth to the 13th century. It is the oldest attested member of the Siberian Turkic branch of Turkic, which is extant in the modern Western Yugur language.

Tamil-Brahmi, also known as Tamizhi or Damili, was originally known as a variant of the Brahmi script, but new evidence proves it coexisted with Brahmi.It was used to write inscriptions in the early form of Old Tamil. The Tamil-Brahmi script has been paleographically and stratigraphically dated between the third century BCE and the first century CE, and it constitutes the earliest …

L’épigraphie est l’étude des inscriptions réalisées sur des matières non putrescibles telles que la pierre (on parle alors d’« inscriptions lapidaires »), l’argile ou le métal [1].Cette science a pour objectif de les dater, de les replacer dans leur contexte culturel, de les traduire et de déterminer les informations qui peuvent en être déduites.