I can't find sources at the moment (but I promise they exist), and I also haven't gotten to the steppes in-game yet, but in the north of Spain there are pastoral communities that use an older, non-Arabic numeral-based system of symbols, mostly carved into stones or the sides of windmills and other buildings. Â These symbols can represent numbers or basic geographic references relevant to their work and do not correspond to the language itself. Â It may be totally off-base, but reading y'all's references to Qestir symbols or markings, that's what I was reminded of.
