Westbound Script -

Here are some pieces for a "Westbound Script":

To understand the Westbound family, you must first understand the Sogdians. The Sogdians were the Phoenicians of the Silk Road. Based in Samarkand and Bukhara, they had no empire but controlled all the letters. Their native script—a gurgling, fluid descendant of Aramaic—was the default lingua mercatoria from 400 BCE onward. Westbound Script

“Go west, young words.”

The "Westbound Kharosthi" died around the 5th century, suffocated by the Gupta Script (ancestor of Tibetan and Burmese). But its ghost survived in the angular spacing of the later Orkhon Turkic runes. When you look at the Orkhon inscriptions (Mongolia, 8th century), you see the DNA of Kharosthi’s vertical stacking, a finger pointing back to China. Here are some pieces for a "Westbound Script":