The ancient Persian alphabet

When the Persian king Darius I the Great (522-486) ordered the Behistun inscription to be made, he also ordered the making of a special, Persian alphabet, which he called 'the Aryan script'. It consists of thirty-six signs indicating syllables and eight ideograms for the words 'king', 'country' (2x) 'good', 'god', 'earth', and 'Ahuramazda' (3x). A slanting wedge (\) is used as a word divider.

This alphabet was mainly used for royal inscriptions; the last text in the 'Aryan script' can be dated to the fourth century BCE.

	The signs A I U KA     KU XA         GA     GU CA         JA JI     TA     TU THA         ÇA          DA  DI DU  NA     NU  PA          FA          BA          MA MI  MU  YA           RA     RU  LA          VA VI      SA          ŠA          ZA          HA         xšâyathiya  'king' dahyâuš  'country' dahyâuš  'country' Ahura  Mazda Ahura  Mazda Ahura  Mazda  (genitive) bûmiš  'earth' baga  'god'     one two three ten twenty fourty hundred
	An example (DPa) Inscription on the doorposts of the inner room of the Palace of Darius I the Great in Persepolis, above figures of the king and attendants.
	Inscription DPa  from Persepolis da-a-ra-ya-va-u-ša \ xa-ša-a-ya-tha-i-ya \  va-za-ra-ka \ xa-ša-a-ya-tha-i-ya \ xa-ša-a-  ya-tha-i-ya-a-na-a-ma \ xa-ša-a-ya-tha-i-ya \  da-ha-ya-u-na-a-ma \ vi-i-ša-ta-a-sa-pa-ha-ya-  a \ pa-u-ça \ ha-xa-a-ma-na-i-ša-i-ya \ ha-  ya \ i-ma-ma \ ta-ça-ra-ma \ a-ku-u-na-u-ša Dârayavauš xšâyathiya  vazraka xšâyathiya xšâ-  yâthiânâm xšâyathiya  dahyunâm Vištâspahy-  a puça Haxâmanišiya  hya imam taçaram akunauš Darius, the king  great, king of ki-  ngs, king of   countries, Hystasp-  es' son, an Achaemenid,  who built this palace. Darius, the great king, king of kings, king of countries, Hystaspes' son, anAchaemenid, built this palace خط میخی هخامنشی از خط میخی اکدی و خط میخی اکدی از خط سومری گرفته شده.خط  میخی هخامنشی۳۶ نشانه ۸ اندیشه نگار ۲واژه جداکن و نشانه هایی برای اعداد دارد. ار چپ به راست نوشته می شود و هجا نگار است From: http://www.livius.org/arl-arz/aryans/alphabet.html