Kharoṣṭhī - Article Index

Encyclopedia - Kharoṣṭhī: Encyclopedia - Kharoṣṭhī
The Kharoṣṭhī script, also known as the Gāndhārī script, is an ancient abugida (a kind of alphabetic script) used by the Gandhara...   » 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 - List Of Writing Systems: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Writing Systems - Segmental Scripts
A segmental script has graphemes which represent the phonemes (basic unit of sound) of a language. Note that there need not be (and rarel...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gondophares: Encyclopedia Ii - Gondophares - St Thomas
Gondophares is connected to St Thomas in early Christian traditions embodied in the Acts of Thomas. In that miracle-filled romance Thomas...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gandhāran Buddhist Texts: Encyclopedia Ii - Gandhāran Buddhist Texts - The 1994 Afghan Manuscripts
In 1994 the British Library acquired a group of some eighty Gandharan manuscript fragments of the 1st or 2nd century. They were written o...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Writing Systems: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Writing Systems - Syllabaries
In a syllabary, graphemes represent syllables or moras. (Note that the 19th century term syllabics usually referred to abugidas rather th...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gondophares: Encyclopedia Ii - Gondophares - Coin Types
Gondophares on horseback, with Zeus. Gondophares on horseback (missing), with Zeus and Nike standing on right hand. Gondophares on horseb...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gondophares: Encyclopedia Ii - Gondophares - Chronology
On the coins of Gondophares, the royal names are Parthian, but the other legends of the coins are in Greek and Kharoṣṭhī. A votive i...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Writing Systems: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Writing Systems - Pictographic/ideographic Writing Systems
Ideographic scripts (in which graphemes are ideograms representing concepts or ideas, rather than a specific word in a language), and pic...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Writing Systems: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Writing Systems - Logographic Writing Systems
In logographic writing systems, glyphs represents words or morphemes (meaningful components of words, as in mean-ing-ful), rather than ph...   » Read the article