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Kharosthi and Aramaic

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Excerpts from the work of Andrew Glass, posted in http://staff.washington.edu/asg/Downloads/Paleography.pdf, and dedicated to the analysis of the Kharosthi (also known under the names "Karosthi", "Bactrian" and "Kabuli") and Aramaic connection. The brief excerpts from the detailed and substantial work (207 pages!) give a an evident demonstration of the Aramaic ancestry of the Kharosthi script.

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Excerpts from the Andrew Glass work

Coins with legends in Kharosthi have been found from almost all chronological span of the script, including issues of the Indo-Greeks, Indo-Scythians, Indo-Parmians, Kusanas, Ksatrapas, Audumbaras, Kulutas, Kunindas, Rajanyas, Vemakis and Vrsns. Many of these coins have been catalogued and illustrated in Gardner 1886, Hill 1906, Smith 1906, Rapson 1908, Whitehead 1914, and Allan 1936. A few Sino-Kharosthi coins, bearing inscriptions in both Chinese and Kharosthi,  have been discovered in and around Hotan. The attribution and dates of these coins are discussed in Gribb 1984, 1985.

British Library has a collection of twenty-nine birch bark fragments containing the work of twenty-one different scribes, reportedly found in Hadda, Afganistan.

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The Kharosthi signs for a, ca, da, na, ya, ra, va, s'a, sa, za and ha present little difficulty as they can be derived more or less directly from their Aramaic counterparts alep, sadeh, dalet, nun, bet, yod, res, waw, het, samek, zayin and he.

The letters ka, kha, ga, ta and pa do not match the Aramaiv letters kap, qop, gimel, taw, and peh, which show a closer resemblance to Kharosthi da, sa, ya, pa and a respectively. Probably each form da, sa, ya, pa and a was created before ka, kha, ga, ta and pa.

Table Kharosthi and Aramaic

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