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Greek Script

Extracted from the Wikipedia article Greek alphabet.

Greek script was used for some Paleo-Balkan languages, including Thracian. For other neighboring languages and dialects, such as Ancient Macedonian, isolated words are preserved in Greek texts, but we have no texts in the language.
The Messapic language used a Greek alphabet in some few hundred inscriptions.
Gaulish inscriptions (in modern France) used the Greek alphabet until the Roman conquest.
The Bactrian language, an Iranian language spoken in what is now Afghanistan, was written in a Greek alphabet during the Kushan Empire (65–250 AD). It adds an extra letter ⟨þ⟩ for the sh sound [ʃ].
Derived from Indo-Greek coinage, the coins of Nahapana and Chastana of the Western Satraps featured an Indo-Aryan language legend written in Greek or pseudo-Greek letters. During the reign of subsequent rulers, the Greek script degraded to a mere ornament that no longer represented any legible legend.