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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Finn235, post: 3236633, member: 98035&quot;]- Chorasmian</p><p>In addition to Sogdian, the people of Khwarezm developed Aramaic into their own script</p><p>AR &quot;Tetradrachm&quot; of Sawashfan, Sogdian on obverse, Chorasmian on reverse</p><p>[ATTACH=full]846349[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><b>Greek</b></p><p>While technically still in use, it can&#039;t be omitted! Greek evolved from Phoenician and the Minoan scripts, reaching its more or less modern form before coinage was even invented.</p><p>Good ol&#039; Alexander drachm [ATTACH=full]846351[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>- Lycian</p><p>The people of Lycia in modern day Turkey used a heavily modified and expanded Greek to represent sounds in their language that were not supported by the Greek alphabet. It did not survive the Greek takeover under Alexander.</p><p>AR tetraobol of Perikles</p><p>[ATTACH=full]846355[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>- Runic</p><p>Yep, the famous script of the Vikings was derived from Greek! Runic is not easy to find, as it was only used briefly by the Anglo-Saxons, and by a few Viking kingdoms. Narrowly missed an AR Sceat in the last CNG auction with Runic!</p><p><br /></p><p>- Bactrian</p><p>While most kingdoms in India continued to use Greek long after the Indo-Greeks fizzled out, the Kushans soon found that Greek was ill-suited for their language, and developed it into Bactrian.</p><p>Early forms are almost indistinguishable from Greek</p><p>Kanishka tetradrachm (yes I know it&#039;s a terrible example)</p><p>[ATTACH=full]846359[/ATTACH] </p><p>Later forms took on a cursive script, nearly impossible to identify as Greek to the layman</p><p>Turkic huns, Vasudeva drachm, Bactrian in margins</p><p>[ATTACH=full]846360[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>-Latin</p><p>Yep, the language you are reading this in right now is just a modified Greek alphabet!</p><p>(Who doesn&#039;t like Trajan&#039;s tiny verbose legends?)[ATTACH=full]846363[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>- Oscan</p><p>Very closely related to Latin is Oscan, which I have not been able to snag an example of.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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