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    correctly. The Kharoṣṭhī script (Kharosthi: 𐨑𐨪𐨆𐨮𐨿𐨛𐨁𐨌, also spelled Kharoshthi), also known as the Gāndhārī script, was an ancient Indic script used...
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  • see question marks, boxes, or other symbols. The Phoenician alphabet is a consonantal alphabet (or abjad) used across the Mediterranean civilization of Phoenicia...
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    Edicts of Ashoka were written in the Brahmi script and sometimes in the Kharoshthi script in the northwest, which had both become extinct around the 4th...
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    Stoughton, ISBN 978-0-07-141984-0. Salomon, Richard (1996). "Brahmi and Kharoshthi". In Daniels, Peter T.; Bright, William (eds.). The World's Writing Systems...
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  • Kharoshthi is a Unicode block containing characters used to write the Gandhari and Sanskrit languages in northwest India from the 3rd century BCE to the...
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    script is not universally accepted. Salomon, Richard (1996). "Brahmi and Kharoshthi". In Daniels, Peter T.; Bright, William (eds.). The World's Writing Systems...
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    Inscriptional Pahlavi (Unicode block) Inscriptional Parthian (Unicode block) Kharoshthi (Unicode block) Linear A (Unicode block) Linear B Ideograms (Unicode block)...
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    the multilingual ʼPhags-pa script. The Kharosthi script, also spelled Kharoshthi or Kharoṣṭhī (Kharosthi: 𐨑𐨪𐨆𐨯𐨠𐨁) was an ancient script used in Gandhara...
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    Mesoamerica. Millard 1986, p. 396. Salomon, Richard (1996). "Brahmi and Kharoshthi". The World's Writing Systems. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-507993-7...
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    coins sometimes use Brahmi, and sometimes Kharoshthi, whereas later Indo-Greek kings only used Kharoshthi. Lakshmi, goddess of abundance and fortune...
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  • left-to-right (LTR). It generally involves text containing different types of alphabets, but may also refer to boustrophedon, which is changing text direction...
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    the newly discovered Bactrian, Indo-Greek and Indo-Scythian coins with Kharoshthi legends, which furnished him the materials for Zur Geschichte der griechischen...
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  • three different general early historic scripts - Brahmi and its variants, Kharoshthi, and Tocharian, the so-called slanting Brahmi. Kha as found in standard...
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    coins they used Greek language legends combined with Pali legends (in the Kharoshthi script), until the first few years of the reign of Kanishka. After the...
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    why the eastern gateway was exclusively inscribed with mason's marks in Kharoshthi, a typical script of the northwest of the subcontinent, by opposition...
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    eighteen writing systems, with the Brahmi topping the list and Kharotthi (Kharoshthi) listed as fourth. The Jaina text elsewhere states that the "Brahmi is...
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    written in Magadhi Prakrit using the Brahmi script, while Prakrit using the Kharoshthi script, Greek and Aramaic were used in the northwest. These edicts were...
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  • decipherments. Language portal Linguistics portal Cuneiform Egyptian hieroglyphs Kharoshthi Linear B Mayan Staveless Runes Cypriot Syllabary Rongorongo (Decipherment...
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    Greek and Aramaic. Moreover, all the edicts of Ashoka engraved in the Kharoshthi and Brahmi scripts are in the Prakrit language: thus, originally the language...
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    of papers based on Indo-Greek coins and his deciphering of Brahmi and Kharoshthi scripts. Salomon 1998, pp. 204–205. "Prinsep came to India in 1819 as...
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    key in the decipherment of the Kharoshthi script by James Prinsep (1835) and Carl Ludwig Grotefend (1836). Kharoshthi became extinct around the 3rd century...
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    this is a reference to a precursor of the Kharoshthi script, which may have developed from the Aramaic alphabet during the Achaemenid rule. While describing...
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  • three different general early historic scripts - Brahmi and its variants, Kharoshthi, and Tocharian, the so-called slanting Brahmi. Ga as found in standard...
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  • the Khmer (Cambodian) language. For details of the characters, see Khmer alphabet – Unicode. The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and...
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  • Tocharian Sa had an alternate Fremdzeichen form, . The third form of sa, in Kharoshthi () was probably derived from Aramaic separately from the Brahmi letter...
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    Ludwig Grotefend, who played a key role in the decipherment of the Indian Kharoshthi script on the coinage of the Indo-Greek kings, around the same time as...
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    coins continue Indo-Greek tradition by using the Greek alphabet on the obverse and Kharoshthi script on the reverse. A portrait of the king is absent...
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  • Tocharian Ssa had an alternate Fremdzeichen form, . The third form of ssa, in Kharoshthi () was probably derived from Aramaic separately from the Brahmi letter...
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  • did not have an alternate Fremdzeichen form. The third form of bha, in Kharoshthi () was probably derived from Aramaic separately from the Brahmi letter...
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  • did not have an alternate Fremdzeichen form. The third form of ha, in Kharoshthi () was probably derived from Aramaic separately from the Brahmi letter...
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