Pre-Islamic scripts in Afghanistan

Afghanistan possesses a rich linguistic legacy of pre-Islamic scripts, which existed before being displaced by the Arabic alphabet, after the Islamic conquest of Afghanistan.^{[citation needed]} Among these scripts are Sharada, Kharosthi, Greek (for the Bactrian language), and Brāhmī^{[citation needed]}. For thousands of years, Afghanistan was inhabited by Indo-Aryan and Iranian peoples and thus all ancient documents, tracts, monuments and remains are of Hindu and Iranian origins. Later, Buddhism became the major force in Afghanistan and brought with it its own liturgical languages.

Abundant archeological evidence in the form of inscriptions, numismatics and manuscripts^{[citation needed]} has provided traces of the precursors of the contemporary Indo-Aryan Languages of Afghanistan such as Dardic languages. Afghan manuscripts in pre-Islamic Indic scripts are included in the Red List of Afghanistan Antiquities at Risk of illicit traffic and looting.