The Western family includes Parthian (Arsacid Pahlavi) and Middle Persian, while Bactrian, Sogdian, Khwarezmian, Saka, and Old Ossetic (Scytho-Sarmatian) fall under the Eastern category. The two languages of the Western group were linguistically very close to each other, but quite distinct from their eastern counterparts. On the other hand, the Eastern group was an areal entity whose languages retained some similarity to Avestan. They were inscribed in various Aramaic-derived alphabets which had ultimately evolved from the Achaemenid Imperial Aramaic script, though Bactrian was written using an adapted Greek script. COUNT 4
QSN1 Bactrian, Sogdian, and Saka are examples of what type of Iranian language? ANS1 Eastern QSN2 Which language bears a resemblance to the diversity of eastern Iranian languages? ANS2 Avestan QSN3 Where did the the alphabets used by eastern languages come from? ANS3 Aramaic QSN4 What did the Bactrian language use for writing? ANS4 Greek script