Encyclopedia - Brahmic Family: Encyclopedia - Brahmic Family
The Brahmic family is a family of abugidas used in South Asia, Tibet and Southeast Asia. The individual abugidas may be called Brahmic sc...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Brahmic Family: Encyclopedia Ii - 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, t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Brahmic Family: Encyclopedia Ii - Brahmic Family - History
Brahmic scripts are descended from the Brāhmī script of ancient India, which in turn is believed to be descended from a Semitic script,...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Khmer Script: Encyclopedia Ii - Khmer Script - Styles
There are several styles of the Khmer script which are used for different purposes. 'Âksâr chriĕng' refers to slanted (or italic) lett...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Brāhmī: Encyclopedia - Brāhmī
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...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Bengali Script: Encyclopedia - Bengali Script
The Bengali script is an Abugida system of writing belonging to the Brahmic family of scripts whose use is associated with the Bengali, A...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Buginese Language: Encyclopedia - Buginese Language
Buginese (locally Basa Ugi, elsewhere also Bahasa Bugis, Bugis, Bugi, De') is the language spoken by about four million people mainly in ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Writing System: Encyclopedia - Writing System
A writing system, also called a script, is a type of symbolic system used to represent elements or statements expressible in language. Wr...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cham Alphabet: Encyclopedia - Cham Alphabet
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...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Devanāgarī: Encyclopedia - Devanāgarī
Devanāgarī (देवनागरी —, pronounced as [d̪e:vən̪ɑɡəɾi], but in English pronounced as [ˌdeɪvəˈnɑ:ɡəɹi:])...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Burmese Alphabet: Encyclopedia - Burmese Alphabet
The Burmese abugida is a script in the Brahmic family used in Myanmar for writing Burmese, Mon, and Kayin (Karen). The characters are rou...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Abugida: Encyclopedia - Abugida
An abugida, alphasyllabary, or syllabics is a writing system composed of signs (graphemes) denoting consonants with an inherent following...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Khmer Script: Encyclopedia Ii - Khmer Script - Dependent Vowels
There are 23 dependent vowel symbols, however this may vary among other sources which counts certain diacritics and their combination wit...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Khmer Script: Encyclopedia Ii - Khmer Script - Ligatures
Most consonants, including a few of the subscripts, form ligatures with all dependent vowels that contain the symbol used for the vowel a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Khmer Script: Encyclopedia Ii - Khmer Script - Consonants
There are 35 Khmer consonants, but in modern Khmer, two of them have become obsolete leaving only 33. To form consonant clusters, subscri...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Buginese Language: Encyclopedia Ii - 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 Ug...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Tagalog Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Tagalog Language - Geographic Distribution
The Tagalog homeland, or Katagalugan, covers roughly much of the central to southern parts of the island of Luzon - particularly in Auror...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Bengali Script: Encyclopedia Ii - Bengali Script - Bengali Symbols
Bengali script - Vowels. The script presently has a total of 11 vowel letters, used to represent the seven main vowel sounds of Bengali...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Devanāgarī: Encyclopedia Ii - Devanāgarī - Origins
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...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Tamil Script: Encyclopedia Ii - Tamil Script - The Tamil Letters
Tamil script - Basic Consonants. Consonants are also called the 'body' (mei) letters. Tamil script - Borrowed consonants. Also called...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Burmese Alphabet: Encyclopedia Ii - Burmese Alphabet - Diacritics
There are seven diactric marks that alter the vowel sound of a character.  ာ which sits to the right of a consonant and changes t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Malayalam Script: Encyclopedia Ii - Malayalam Script - Malayalam In Unicode
The Unicode range for Malayalam is U+0D00 ... U+0D7F. Grammar of colloquial Malayalam is available at www.geocities.com/malayalamgrammar ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Romanization: Encyclopedia Ii - Romanization - Romanization Of Specific Writing Systems
Romanization - Arabic. For more detail, see Arabic transliteration The Arabic alphabet is used to write Arabic, Persian, and Urdu. Roma...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Kannada Script: Encyclopedia Ii - Kannada Script - General
The script has 49 characters in its alphasyllabary and is phonemic. The Kannada character set is almost identical to that of other Indian...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Romanization: Encyclopedia Ii - Romanization - Romanization Of Specific Writing Systems
Romanization - Arabic. For more detail, see Arabic transliteration The Arabic alphabet is used to write Arabic, Persian, and Urdu. Roma...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Languages By Writing System: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Languages By Writing System - Munda Scripts
List of languages by writing system - Sorang Sompeng. Sora List of languages by writing system - Ol Cemet'. Santali List of lang...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Devanāgarī: Encyclopedia Ii - Devanāgarī - Origins
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...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Writing System: Encyclopedia Ii - Writing System - Types Of Writing System
The oldest-known forms of writing were primarily logographic in nature, based on pictographic and ideographic elements. Most writing syst...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Transliteration: Encyclopedia Ii - Transliteration - Uses Of Transliteration
Transliterations in the narrow sense are used in situations where the original script is not available to write down a word in that scrip...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Tagalog Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Tagalog Language - Sounds
Tagalog has 21 phonemes; 16 consonants and five vowels. Syllable structure is relatively simple. Each syllable contains at least a conso...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Tagalog Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Tagalog Language - Writing System
Tagalog language - Baybayin. Main article: Baybayin Tagalog was written in an abugida called Baybayin prior to the arrival of the Spa...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Tagalog Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Tagalog Language - Vocabulary And Borrowed Words
Tagalog vocabulary is composed mostly of words of Austronesian origin with borrowings from Spanish, Min Nan Chinese (also known as Hokkie...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Devanāgarī: Encyclopedia Ii - Devanāgarī - Devanagari Keyboard Layouts
Devanāgarī - INSCRIPT. Devanāgarī - Typewriter. ... See also:Devanāgarī, Devanāgarī - Origins, Devanāgarī - Etymology, De...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Romanization: Encyclopedia Ii - Romanization - Methods Of Romanization
Romanization - Transliteration. If the romanization attempts to transliterate the original script, the guiding principle is a one-to-on...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Devanāgarī: Encyclopedia Ii - Devanāgarī - Symbols Of Devanagari
All the vowels in Devanagari are attached to the top or bottom of the consonant or to an <aa> vowel sign attached to the right of t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Devanāgarī: Encyclopedia Ii - Devanāgarī - Principles
Devanagari has 12 svara (pure sounds, or vowels) and 34 vyanjana (ornamented sounds, consonants). An akshara is formed by the combination...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Tagalog Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Tagalog Language - Examples
Tagalog language - Common phrases. English: Ingglés [ʔɪŋˈglɛs] (ing-GLES) Filipino: Pilipino [ˌpiːliˈpiːno] (pih-lih-PIH-noh...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Writing System: Encyclopedia Ii - Writing System - Directionality
Different scripts are written in different directions. The early alphabet could be written in any direction: either horizontal (left-to-r...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Romanization: Encyclopedia Ii - Romanization - Methods Of Romanization
Romanization - Transliteration. If the romanization attempts to transliterate the original script, the guiding principle is a one-to-on...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Burmese Alphabet: Encyclopedia Ii - Burmese Alphabet - Digits
A decimal numbering system is used, and numbers are written in the same order as Hindu-Arabic numerals. The numerals from zero to nine ar...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Kannada Script: Encyclopedia Ii - Kannada Script - Consonants
Two types of consonants are identified in Kannada—the structured consonants and the unstructured consonants. The structured consonants ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Devanāgarī: Encyclopedia Ii - Devanāgarī - Devanagari Keyboard Layouts
Devanāgarī - INSCRIPT. Devanāgarī - Typewriter. ... See also:Devanāgarī, Devanāgarī - Origins, Devanāgarī - Etymology, De...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Devanāgarī: Encyclopedia Ii - Devanāgarī - Symbols Of Devanagari
All the vowels in Devanagari are attached to the top or bottom of the consonant or to an <aa> vowel sign attached to the right of t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Buginese Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Buginese Language - Script
It was traditionally written using the Lontara script, of the Brahmic family, which is also used for the Makassar language and the Mandar...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Writing System: Encyclopedia Ii - Writing System - General Properties
Writing systems are distinguished from other possible symbolic communication systems in that one must usually understand something of the...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Tamil Script: Encyclopedia Ii - Tamil Script - Tamil In Unicode
The Unicode range for Tamil is U+0B80 ... U+0BFF. ... See also:Tamil script, Tamil script - The Tamil letters, Tamil script - Basic Co...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Tagalog Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Tagalog Language - History
The word Tagalog was derived from tagá-ílog, from tagá- meaning "native of" and ílog meaning "river", thus, it means "resident beside...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Devanāgarī: Encyclopedia Ii - Devanāgarī - Principles
Devanagari has 12 svara (pure sounds, or vowels) and 34 vyanjana (ornamented sounds, consonants). An akshara is formed by the combination...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Writing System: Encyclopedia Ii - Writing System - History Of Writing Systems
Before there was writing, there was proto-writing. However few surviving examples exist, with some authorities questioning the inscripti...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Writing System: Encyclopedia Ii - Writing System - Basic Terminology
The study of writing systems has developed along partially independent lines in the examination of individual scripts, and as such the te...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Tagalog Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Tagalog Language - Classification
Tagalog is a Central Philippine language within the Austronesian language family. It is closely related to the languages spoken in the Bi...   » Read the article