Brāhmī
... were long considered the earliest examples of Brahmi writing, but recent archeological evidence in Sri ... the date for the earliest use of Brahmi to the 5th or 6th century BC. This script is ancestral to most of the scripts ... believed to be derived from a Semitic script such as the Imperial Aramaic alphabet, as ... much better documented parallel of the Hangul script. Older examples of the Brahmi script ...
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Tamil script
Tamil script Note: This page containsIPA phonetic symbolsin Unicode. A Tamil language sign The Tamil script (or vaṭṭeḻuttu "rounded writing") is an Indic script that is used to write the Tamil ... voiced consonants not represented in the basic script, it is also used to write Saurashtra ... to write Sanskrit. Overview Characteristics The Tamil script has 12 vowels (uyireḻuttu "soul-letters"), ...
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Indus script
Indus script These fragments of the early Indus script are about 5,500 years old. [1 ... it is inscribed in the mature Indus script. The term Indus script (Harappan script) refers to short strings of symbols ...
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Gurmukhī script
Gurmukhī script This page contains Indic text. Without rendering ... lack of conjuncts. More... The Gurmukhī (ਗੁਰਮੁਖੀ) script, derived from the Later Sharada script and standardised by Guru Angad Dev in ... s 1430 pages are written in this script. The word Gurmukhi is commonly translated as ... the North Indian writing systems, the Gurmukhi script is a descendant of the Brahmi ...
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Gujarati script
Gujarati script Excerpt from "My experiments with truth" - the ... of Mahatma Gandhi in its original Gujarati script. The Gujarati script, which like all Nagari writing systems is ... and the Kutchi language. It resembles Devanagari script without the line. A few letters are ... with Devanagari Owing to their origin from Brahmi, both Devanagari (used for Indic languages ...
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Celtiberian script
Celtiberian script History of the Alphabet Middle Bronze Age ... 3rd c. BC Complete genealogy The Celtiberian script was used to write the Celtiberian language, an extinct Continental Celtic language. The script has been seen in inscriptions dated between ... between voiced and unvoiced consonants, the resulting script was unable to fully express the Celtiberian language. The largest collection of Celtiberian script known is on a set of ...
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Meroitic script
Meroitic script Meroitic monumental and cursive alphabets History of ... 3rd c. BC Complete genealogy The Meroitic script is an alphabet of Egyptian hieroglyphic and ... successor Nubian kingdoms. Being primarily alphabetic, the script worked in quite a different way than ... not function much like Greek. The Meroitic script was essentially alphabetic, but with a default ... Meroitic dialectical variation within a single unified script. There were two graphic forms of ...
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Gupta script
Gupta script The Gupta script was used for writing Sanskrit and is ... great religious and scientific developments. The Gupta script was descended from Brahmi and gave rise to the Siddham script. External link The Gupta Alphabet (site ...
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Pahlavi script
Pahlavi script This article is about the Pahlavi writing ... uses of the term Pahlavi. The Pahlavi script was used broadly in the Sasanid Persian ... term The word Pahlavi, referring to the script of Middle Persian, itself is a borrowing ... later came to be applied to the script used to write Middle Persian, which was ... from the Aramaic alphabet. Middle Persian Pahlavi script was derived from Aramaic independently, although ...
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Talk:Indus script
Talk:Indus script Discussion about Copyright Violation On http://www ... I copied parts of text on Indus Script from www.ancientscripts.com. It turns out ... to write an original piece on Indus Script, exclusively for Wikipedia, in part as apology ... to make the article compatible with teh Brahmi article. -- Pjacobi 18:45, 30 Sep 2004 ... remains "silent" in the sense that the "script" remains undeciphered. The original text severely ...
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