correctly. Brahmi (/ˈbrɑːmi/ BRAH-mee; 𑀩𑁆𑀭𑀸𑀳𑁆𑀫𑀻; ISO: Brāhmī) is a writing system from ancient India that appeared as a fully developed script in the...
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Tamil-Brahmi, also known as Tamili or Damili, was a variant of the Brahmi script in southern India. It was used to write inscriptions in Old Tamil. The...
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The Gupta script (sometimes referred to as Gupta Brahmi script or Late Brahmi script) was used for writing Sanskrit and is associated with the Gupta Empire...
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Brahmic scripts descended from the Brahmi script. Brahmi is clearly attested from the 3rd century BCE during the reign of Ashoka, who used the script for...
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the original Brahmi script. The earliest inscriptions which are accepted examples of Tamil writing date to the Ashokan period. The script used by such...
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also known as Pre-Old-Kannada script. The Kadamba script is one of the oldest of the southern group of the Brahmi script. By the 5th century CE it became...
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the Brahmi script has some connection with the Indus system. Raymond Allchin has somewhat cautiously supported the possibility of the Brahmi script being...
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Kharosthi (redirect from Gandhari script)
Kharosthi script and its successors, knowledge of Kharosthi may have declined rapidly once the script was supplanted by Brahmi-derived scripts, until its...
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century CE. In India, the Pallava script evolved from Tamil-Brahmi. The Grantha script originated from the Pallava script. Pallava also spread to Southeast...
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Sanskrit (redirect from Sanskrit script)
datable writing systems for Sanskrit are the Brāhmī script, the related Kharoṣṭhī script and the Brahmi derivatives. The Kharosthi was used in the northwestern...
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It was based on the Brahmi-based scripts of both north and south India. The best available evidence suggests that the Pyu script gradually developed between...
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India are related to Brahmi and these are related to Buddhism. Since the script, which is similar to the ancient Sinhalese script, is found in the Tamil...
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Devanagari script. It came in vogue during the first millennium CE. The Nāgarī script has roots in the ancient Brahmi script family. The Nāgarī script was in...
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time period of 2700–1900 BCE The Gupta script (sometimes referred to as Gupta Brahmi script or Late Brahmi script) was used for writing Sanskrit and is...
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Vatteluttu (redirect from Palava script)
"southern group" of Brahmi derivatives (Southern Brahmi, generally associated with Dravidian languages of south India). The script was used in inscriptions...
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Brahmi numerals are a numeral system attested in the Indian subcontinent from the 3rd century BCE. It is the direct graphic ancestor of the modern Hindu–Arabic...
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Sanskrit in Brahmi script inscriptions attest to the prevalence of the Sanskrit in Afghanistan. Some later Sanskrit inscriptions in late Brahmi of about...
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The Bhattiprolu script is a variant of the Brahmi script which has been found in old inscriptions at Bhattiprolu, a small village in the erstwhile Guntur...
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James Prinsep (section Brahmi script philologist)
of Bengal and is best remembered for deciphering the Kharosthi and Brahmi scripts of ancient India. He studied, documented and illustrated many aspects...
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The Tocharian script, also known as Central Asian slanting Gupta script or North Turkestan Brāhmī, is an abugida which uses a system of diacritical marks...
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anthropologist at the University of Hull. He was probably not aware that most Brahmi script lineages use KA Ga and Nga as the first characters of the alphabetic...
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Brahmic scripts, is a descendant of the Ancient Indian Brahmi script. It is thought to be derived from Grantha script. The Sinhala script is a Brahmi derivate...
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Thirke (redirect from Thirke script)
ancient Brāhmī script. It was developed and in use during the 14th century CE in Kodagu, in present-day Karnataka. Mookonda Kushalappa called this script "thirke"...
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Devanagari (redirect from Devanagari script)
of segmental writing system), based on the ancient Brāhmī script. It is one of the official scripts of India and Nepal. It was developed in, and was in...
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The Laṇḍā scripts form a "typologically distinct group," and are closer in norms to its predecessor Brahmi than they are to the Nāgarī scripts to the east...
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Kannada script. The Brahmi script used by Mauryan kings eventually reached the Krishna River delta and would give rise to the Bhattiprolu script found on...
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with inventing lipi, the scripts for writing. Scholars such as Lallanji Gopal claim some ancient lipi such as the Brahmi script as used in the Indian texts...
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Aramaic alphabet (redirect from Maronite script)
was also an ancestor to the Syriac alphabet and Mongolian script and Kharosthi and Brahmi, and Nabataean alphabet, which had the Arabic alphabet as a...
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character set is almost identical to that of other Brahmic scripts or often known as Brahmi Lipi. Consonantal letters imply an inherent vowel. Letters...
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Indonesian island of Sumatra. The script may be derived from the Kawi and Pallava script, ultimately derived from the Brahmi script of India, or from the hypothetical...
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