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Brahmi (/ ˈ b r ɑː m i / BRAH-mee; 𑀩𑁆𑀭𑀸𑀳𑁆𑀫𑀻; ISO: Brāhmī) is a writing system of ancient India that appeared as a fully developed script in the 3rd century BCE. Its descendants, the Brahmic scripts, continue to be used today across Southern and Southeastern Asia.
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Type of writing system: Abugida / Syllabic Alphabet- each letter represents a consonant with an inherent vowel. Other vowels were indicated using a variety of diacritics and separate letters.Script family: Proto-Sinaitic, Phoenician, Aramaic, BrāhmīLetters are grouped according to the way they are pronounced.devānaṁpiye piyadasi lājā hevaṁ āhā ye atikaṁtaṁ aṁtalaṁ lājāne husa hevaṁ ichisu kathaṁ jane dhaṁmavaḍhiyā vāḍheya nocujane anulupāyā dhaṁmavaḍhiyā vaḍhithā etaṁ devānaṁpiye piyadasi lājā hevaṁ āhā esame huthā atākaṁtaṁ ca aṁtalaṁ hevaṁ ichisu lājāne katha jane
Bengali, Devanāgarī, Gujarāti, Gurmukhi, Kannada, Khmer, Malayalam, Odia, Sinhala, Tamil, Telugu, Tibetan
Information about Brāhmī http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Br%C4%81hm%C4%AB_script http://www.virtualvinodh.com/brahmi-lipitva http://www.nibbanam.com/Brahmi/brahmi.htm Brāhmī fonts https://sites.google.com/site/brahmiscript/ The Edicts of King Asoka http://www.cs.colostate.edu/~malaiya/ashoka.html ALPHABETUM - a Unicode font for ancient scripts, includ...
Bhaiksuki, Brāhmi, Devanāgari, Galik, Grantha, Gupta, Kadamba, Kharosthi, Nandinagari, Sharda, Siddham, Thai, Tibetan
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Brahmic scripts spread in a peaceful manner, Indianization, or the spread of Indian learning. The scripts spread naturally to Southeast Asia, at ports on trading routes. [3] At these trading posts, ancient inscriptions have been found in Sanskrit, using scripts that originated in India.
Mar 14, 2024 · Brāhmī,, writing system ancestral to all Indian scripts except Kharoṣṭhī. Of Aramaic derivation or inspiration, it can be traced to the 8th or 7th century bc, when it may have been introduced to Indian merchants by people of Semitic origin.
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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 of the Indian subcontinent, which was a period of material prosperity and great religious and scientific developments.
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Nov 14, 2016 · The Brahmi Script is the earliest writing system developed in India after the Indus script. It is one of the most influential writing systems; all modern Indian scripts and several hundred scripts found in Southeast and East Asia are derived from Brahmi.
The hybrid origin of Brāhmī script from Aramaic, Phoenician and Greek letters. Karan Damodaram Pillai. 2023, Indialogs. The origins of Brāhmī script have been mired in controversy for over a century since the Semitic model was first proposed by Albrecht Weber in 1856.
