ball-eis-korakas:Wooden tablet from Loulan (western China, c. 3rd centuryAD), written in the Kharost
ball-eis-korakas:Wooden tablet from Loulan (western China, c. 3rd centuryAD), written in the Kharosthi script.Kharosthi is an ancient Indian script that was used in the kingdom ofGandhāra (modern-day Pakistan and eastern Afghanistan). TheGāndhārī language was used as an administrative language inLoulan, but it likely that the ordinary people spoke Kroränian, orTocharian C, one of the now-extinct Tocharian languages. -- source link
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