Numbers in ancient Kharosthi script that was used in northern Pakistan.

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Kharoshti was used in Gandhara (Northern Pakistan). It is derived from Aramiac. Aramaic script arrived with the Achaemenid Empire's conquest of the Indus River (modern Pakistan) in 500 BCE. It is written right to left.

Descent tree:

Phoenician alphabet

Aramaic alphabet

Kharosthi

Sister Scripts derived from Aramaic:

Brahmi script (parent of scripts in india)

Nabataean alphabet

Syriac alphabet (base of modern scripts in Pk)

Palmyrene alphabet

Mandaic alphabet

Pahlavi scripts (pre islamic iran)

Sogdian alphabet
 
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