The Brahmic family is a family of abugidas used in South Asia, Tibet and Southeast Asia. The individual abugidas may be called Brahmic scripts or Indic scripts. Brahmic family - History. Brahmic scripts are descended from the Brahmi script of ancient India, which in turn is believed to be descended from a Semitic script, thus they probably have a common ancestor with the European scripts. However, some academics (see references in Rastogi 1980:88-98) believe that the Viramkhol in ...

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Brahmic family - History Brahmic family - List of Brahmic Scripts encoded in Unicode Brahmic family - Other Brahmic Scripts

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Brahmic scripts are descended from the Brāhmī script of ancient India, which in turn is believed to be descended from a Semitic script, thus they probably have a common ancestor with the European scripts. However, some academics (see references in Rastogi 1980:88-98) believe that the Viramkhol inscription is conclusive evidence that Brahmi had indigenous origins, probably from the Indus Valley (or Harappan) script. The most prominent member of the family is Devanagari, which is used to write several languages of India and Nepal, inc ...

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Brahmic family, Brahmic family - History, Brahmic family - List of Brahmic Scripts encoded in Unicode, Brahmic family - Other Brahmic Scripts

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There are several styles of the Khmer script which are used for different purposes. 'Âksâr chriĕng' refers to slanted (or italic) letters. Slanted letters do not serve the same purpose as italics in English, so entire bodies of text such as novels and other publications may be produced in 'âksâr chriĕng' . 'Âksâr chhôr' refers to any style that is "standing" or upright. Upright letters were previously not common as 'âksâr chriĕng', but now most computer fonts defaultly display Khmer text upri ...

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Khmer script, Khmer script - Styles, Khmer script - Consonants, Khmer script - Dependent vowels, Khmer script - Independent vowels, Khmer script - Diacritics, Khmer script - Punctuation marks, Khmer script - Ligatures, Khmer script - Numerals, Khmer script - Khmer in Unicode

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Middle Bronze Age 19-15th c. BC Proto-Canaanite 14th c. BC Ugaritic 13th c. BC Phoenician 11th c. BC Samaritan 6th c. BC Aramaic 9th c. BC Brāhmī 4th c. BC Hebrew 3rd c. BC Syriac 2nd c. BC Avestan 3th c. Arabic 4th c. Greek 8th c. BC Old Italic 8th c. BC Latin 7th c. BC Runes 2nd c. Gothic 4th c. Armenian 405 Glagolitic 862 Cyril ...

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Brāhmī - Literature Brāhmī - Examples

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The Bengali script is an Abugida system of writing belonging to the Brahmic family of scripts whose use is associated with the Bengali, Assamese, Manipuri and Sylheti languages. While it is very similar to Devanagari, it is less blocky and presents a more sinuous shaping, and is derived from a precursor of that script called Nagari. The modern script was formalized in 1778 when it was first typeset by Charles Wilkins. There are some minor differences between the version of the script used for Assamese and that used for the other languages: rô (Bengali র; Assames ...

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Buginese (locally Basa Ugi, elsewhere also Bahasa Bugis, Bugis, Bugi, De') is the language spoken by about four million people mainly in the southern part of Sulawesi, Indonesia. Buginese language - History. The word Buginese derived from the word Bahasa Bugis in Malay. In Buginese, it is called Basa Ugi while the Bugis people are called To Ugi. Ugi in buginese means The First King which refers to the first king of ancient Bugis kingdom, ...

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Buginese language - Dialects And Subdialects

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A writing system, also called a script, is a type of symbolic system used to represent elements or statements expressible in language. Writing system - General properties. Writing systems are distinguished from other possible symbolic communication systems in that one must usually understand something of the associated language in order to successfully read and comprehend the text. Contrast this with other possible symbolic systems such as information signs, painting, maps, and mathematics, which do ...

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Writing system - Logographic writing systems Writing system - Syllabic writing systems Writing system - Alphabetic writing systems Writing system - Featural writing systems
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The Cham script is used to write Cham, an Austronesian language spoken by the Cham people in Vietnam and Cambodia. Cham has about 230,000 speakers. The Cham script is one of the first scripts to develop from the early Brahmi alphabet of India, beginning by 200 AD. Like all the Brahmic family, it is a syllabic alphabet, and is thus classed as an "abugida". It is written horizontally, and left to right, as in English. The Cham now live in two isolated groups: Western Cham in Cambodia, and Eastern Cham in Vietnam. Ea ...

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Devanāgarī (देवनागरी —, pronounced as [d̪e:vən̪ɑɡəɾi], but in English pronounced as [ˌdeɪvəˈnɑ:ɡəɹi:]) (ISCII – IS13194:1991) [1] is an abugida writing system used to write, either along with other scripts, or exclusively, several Indian languages, including Sanskrit, Hindi, Marathi, Kashmiri, Sindhi, Biha ...

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Devanāgarī - Ligatures
Devanāgarī - Devanagari in Unicode Devanāgarī - Devanagari Keyboard Layouts
Devanāgarī - INSCRIPT Devanāgarī - Typewriter
Devanāgarī - Software

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The Burmese abugida is a script in the Brahmic family used in Myanmar for writing Burmese, Mon, and Kayin (Karen). The characters are rounded in appearance, because the traditional palm leaves used for writing would have been ripped by straight lines. Like English, it is written from left to right. There are about 33 consonants က (pronounced ka) to ဠ (pronounced la). However, the last letter in the alphabet (အ; aa), although recognized as a consonant, is actually a vowel. Since the a is the onl ...

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An abugida, alphasyllabary, or syllabics is a writing system composed of signs (graphemes) denoting consonants with an inherent following vowel, which are consistently modified to indicate other vowels, or, in some cases, the lack of a vowel. Examples include the various scripts of the Brahmic family, Ethiopic Ge’ez, and Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics. A typical abugida is Devanagari. There is no basic sign representing the consonant k; rather the unmodified letter क represents the syllable ka; th ...

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There are 23 dependent vowel symbols, however this may vary among other sources which counts certain diacritics and their combination with basic vowel symbols as unique vowel symbols. Dependent vowels are known in Khmer as srăk nissăy (ស្រៈនិស្ស័យ) or srăk phsâm (ស្រៈផ្សំ). Dependent vowels always have to be combined with a consonant in orthography. For most of the vowel symbols, there are two phones. As to which phone is used depends on the series (or the inherent vowel) of the dominant consonant in a syllable cluster. Some vowel symbols may even have a regular third or fou ...

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Khmer script, Khmer script - Styles, Khmer script - Consonants, Khmer script - Dependent vowels, Khmer script - Independent vowels, Khmer script - Diacritics, Khmer script - Punctuation marks, Khmer script - Ligatures, Khmer script - Numerals, Khmer script - Khmer in Unicode

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Most consonants, including a few of the subscripts, form ligatures with all dependent vowels that contain the symbol used for the vowel a (ា). A lot of these ligatures are easily recognizable, however a few may not be. One of the more unrecognizable is the ligature for the bâ and a which was created to differentiate it from the consonant symbol hâ as well as the ligature for châ and a. It is not always necessary to connect consonants with the dependent vowel a. Examples of ligatured symbols: Ligatured consonant subscript an ...

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Khmer script, Khmer script - Styles, Khmer script - Consonants, Khmer script - Dependent vowels, Khmer script - Independent vowels, Khmer script - Diacritics, Khmer script - Punctuation marks, Khmer script - Ligatures, Khmer script - Numerals, Khmer script - Khmer in Unicode

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There are 35 Khmer consonants, but in modern Khmer, two of them have become obsolete leaving only 33. To form consonant clusters, subscript consonants are used. Subscript consonants are commonly referred to plainly as subscripts or sometimes sub-consonants. In Khmer, they are known as 'cheung âksâr' (ជើង​អ័ក្សរ) meaning the foot of a letter. Subscript consonants help form consonant clusters by cancelling out the inherent vowel of the preceding consonant it's paired with. Listed in the table below are the pronunci ...

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Khmer script, Khmer script - Styles, Khmer script - Consonants, Khmer script - Dependent vowels, Khmer script - Independent vowels, Khmer script - Diacritics, Khmer script - Punctuation marks, Khmer script - Ligatures, Khmer script - Numerals, Khmer script - Khmer in Unicode

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The word Buginese derived from the word Bahasa Bugis in Malay. In Buginese, it is called Basa Ugi while the Bugis people are called To Ugi. Ugi in buginese means The First King which refers to the first king of ancient Bugis kingdom, Cina. Little is known about the early history of this language due to the lack of written records. The earliest written record of this language is the I La Galigo, an epic cycle about the early ...

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Buginese language, Buginese language - History, Buginese language - Classification, Buginese language - Geographical Distribution, Buginese language - Script, Buginese language - The Buginese Lontara, Buginese language - Dialects And Subdialects

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The Tagalog homeland, or Katagalugan, covers roughly much of the central to southern parts of the island of Luzon - particularly in Aurora, Bataan, Batangas, Bulacan, Cavite, Laguna, Metro Manila, Nueva Ecija, Quezon, and Rizal. Tagalog is also spoken natively by inhabitants living on the islands of Lubang, Marinduque, and the northern and eastern parts of Mindoro. According to the Philippine Census of 2000, 21,485,927 out of 76,332,470 Filipinos claimed Tagalog as their first language. An estimated 50 m ...

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Tagalog language, Tagalog language - History, Tagalog language - Classification, Tagalog language - Geographic distribution, Tagalog language - Official status, Tagalog language - Dialects, Tagalog language - Derived languages, Tagalog language - Code-switching, Tagalog language - Binaliktad, Tagalog language - Sounds, Tagalog language - Vowels, Tagalog language - Consonants, Tagalog language - Stress, Tagalog language - Phonology, Tagalog language - Historical sound changes, Tagalog language - Grammar, Tagalog language - Writing system, Tagalog language - Baybayin, Tagalog language - Latin alphabet, Tagalog language - Vocabulary and borrowed words, Tagalog language - Tagalog words of foreign origin chart, Tagalog language - Austronesian comparison chart, Tagalog language - Contribution to other languages, Tagalog language - Examples, Tagalog language - Common phrases, Tagalog language - Proverbs, Tagalog language - The Universal Declaration of Human Rights Article 1 in Tagalog, Tagalog language - Resources for learning Tagalog

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Bengali script - Vowels. The script presently has a total of 11 vowel letters, used to represent the seven main vowel sounds of Bengali, along with a number of vowel diphthongs. All of these are used in both Bangla and Assamese, the two main languages using the script. Some of the vowel letters have different sounds depending on the word, and a number of vowel distinctions preserved in the writing system are not pronounced as such in modern spoken Bengali or Assamese. For example, the Bengali script has two symbo ...

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Bengali script, Bengali script - Bengali symbols, Bengali script - Vowels, Bengali script - Modifiers, Bengali script - Consonants, Bengali script - Digits, Bengali script - Bengali in Unicode, Bengali script - Sample Text

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Middle Bronze Age 19-15th c. BC Proto-Canaanite 14th c. BC Ugaritic 13th c. BC Phoenician 11th c. BC Samaritan 6th c. BC Aramaic 9th c. BC Brāhmī 6th c. BC Hebrew 3rd c. BC Syriac 2nd c. BC Avestan 3th c. Arabic 4th c. Greek 8th c. BC Old Italic 8th c. BC Latin 7th c. BC Runes 2nd c. Gothic 4th c. Armenian 405 Glagolitic 862 Cyrillic 10th c. ...

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Devanāgarī, Devanāgarī - Origins, Devanāgarī - Etymology, Devanāgarī - Principles, Devanāgarī - Symbols of Devanagari, Devanāgarī - Vowels, Devanāgarī - Consonants, Devanāgarī - Additional signs, Devanāgarī - Accent marks, Devanāgarī - Numerals, Devanāgarī - Devanagari in Unicode, Devanāgarī - Devanagari Keyboard Layouts, Devanāgarī - INSCRIPT, Devanāgarī - Typewriter, Devanāgarī - Software

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Tamil script - Basic Consonants. Consonants are also called the 'body' (mei) letters. Tamil script - Borrowed consonants. Also called "Grantha" letters, these letters are used almost exclusively for writing words that are borrowed from Sanskrit (or sometimes other languages such as English). Seeing one of these letters in a word is a good indication that the word is probably borrowed from Sanskrit though of course not all such words include these letters.See also:

Tamil script, Tamil script - The Tamil letters, Tamil script - Basic Consonants, Tamil script - Borrowed consonants, Tamil script - Vowels, Tamil script - Tamil in Unicode

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