 logograms), much like the sign is read as "and" in English and the original Latin "et" is now no longer obvious.Under the early third-century BCE Parthian Empire, whose government used Koine Greek but whose native language was Parthian, the Parthian language and the Aramaic-derived writing system used for Parthian both gained prestige.This in turn influenced the adoption of the name "pahlavi" (< "parthawi", "of the Parthians") for their use of Aramaic script with logograms.