 a word such as "āzād" "noble, free" was written "ʼčʼt" in Pahlavi, but "ʼʼzʼd" in Manichaean Middle Persian of the same period.Manichaean script was not the only script used to render Manichaean manuscripts.When writing in Sogdian, which was frequently the case, Manichaean scribes frequently used the Sogdian alphabet ("Uighur script").