Old #Turkic was derived from Early #Steppean #Rovash and was also influenced by #Kharosthi.

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#Early #Steppean #Rovash was derived from Imperial #Aramaic. It was also influenced by #Kharosthi, Inscriptional #Parthian, Inscriptional #Pahlavi, Book #Pahlavi, and #Proto-Rovash.

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#Proto-Rovash is also influenced by numerous writing scripts, including: #Aramaic, #Kharosthi, #Parthian, #Pahlavi, #Nabataean, Early Steppean Rovash, #Greek, #Lydia, #Carian, and #Lycian

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Here is an example of #Kharosthi epigraphy:
Bronze Sino-Kharoṣṭhī coin dating 1 c. CE, depicting a horse and the Kharoṣṭhī inscriptions "of the great king, king of kings, king of Khotan, Gurgamoya"

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The sibling scripts of #Kharosthi showed the #Achaemenid empire's influence when #Aramaic was propagated across the empire and to her neighbours where it was adopted regionally for local languages.

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As an #abugida, #Kharosthi utilises diacritics to modify consonants in a similar way to #Geez and #Brahmic scripts.

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We now resume our vignettes for writing scripts descended from #Egyptian #hieroglyphs.

#Kharosthi is an #Aramaic derived script used in the north-western #Indian subcontinent and central #Asia.

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