Old Permic alphabet by usual writing. The inclusion of the latter aided the alphabet in greater acceptance among the medieval Permic speakers of the time. The alphabet was in use until the 17th century, when it was superseded by the Cyrillic script. Abur was also used as cryptographic writing for the Russian language. April 26, which is the saint's day of Stephen of Perm, is celebrated as Old Permic Alphabet Day. The Abur inscriptions are among the oldest relics of the Uralic languages. Only one of them has earlier documents: Hungarian, which had been written using the Old Hungarian script first before the
Siddhaṃ script Siddhaṃ script , also known in its later evolved form as Siddhamātṛkā, is a script used for writing Sanskrit from c. 550 – c. 1200. It is descended from the Brahmi script via the Gupta script and later evolved into the Assamese alphabet, the Maithili alphabet, the Bengali alphabet, and the Tibetan alphabet. There is some confusion over the spelling: ' and ' are both common, though "" is preferred as "correct". The script is a refinement of the script used during the Gupta Empire. The word means "accomplished" or "perfected" in Sanskrit. The script received its name from the