For the earlier script from which all of the Brahmic scripts derived, see Brahmi script.
Family of abugida writing systems
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Writing systems
Abjad
Arabic
Hebrew
Tifinagh
Abugida
Canadian syllabic
Ethiopic
North Indic
South Indic
Thaana
Alphabetical
Armenian
Cyrillic
Georgian
Greek
Hangul
Latin
Mongolian
Logographic and Syllabic
Hanzi [L]
Kana [S] / Kanji [L]
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Brahmic scripts
The Brahmi script and its descendants
Northern Brahmic
Gupta
Sharada
Landa
Gurmukhi
Khojki
Khudabadi
Multani
Mahajani
Takri
Dogri
Siddham
Nagari
Devanagari
Gujarati
Modi
Nandinagari
Kaithi
Sylheti Nagri
Gaudi
Bengali–Assamese
Bengali
Assamese
Tirhuta
Odia
Nepalese
Bhujimol
Ranjana
Soyombo
Pracalit
Tibetan
Meitei
Lepcha
Limbu
Khema
Phagspa
Zanabazar square
Marchen
Marchung
Pungs-chen
Pungs-chung
Drusha
Kalinga
Bhaiksuki
Tocharian
Southern Brahmic
Tamil-Brahmi
Pallava
Tamil
Grantha
Malayalam
Tigalari
Dhives Akuru
Saurashtra
Khmer
Khom Thai
Proto-Tai script?
Sukhothai
Thai
Fakkham
Thai Noi
Lao
Tai Viet
Dai Don
Lai Tay
Lai Pao
Cham
Kawi
Balinese
Batak
Buda
Javanese
Old Sundanese
Sundanese
Lontara
Makasar
Ulu scripts
Incung
Lampung
Lembak
Ogan
Pasemah
Rejang
Serawai
Baybayin
Buhid
Hanunoo
Tagbanwa
Kulitan
Mon–Burmese
Burmese
Chakma
S'gaw Karen
Shan
Tanchangya
Lik-Tai scripts
Ahom
Khamti
Tai Le
Modern Mon
Tai Tham
New Tai Lue
Pyu
Vatteluttu
Kolezhuthu
Malayanma
Sinhala
Bhattiprolu
Kadamba
Telugu-Kannada
Kannada
Goykanadi
Telugu
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History of the alphabet
Graphical descent from Egyptian hieroglyphs
Egyptian hieroglyphs 32nd c. BCE
Hieratic 32nd c. BCE
Demotic 7th c. BCE
Meroitic 3rd c. BCE
Proto-Sinaitic 19th c. BCE
Ugaritic 15th c. BCE
Epigraphic South Arabian 9th c. BCE
Geʽez 5–6th c. BCE
Phoenician 12th c. BCE
Paleo-Hebrew 10th c. BCE
Samaritan 6th c. BCE
Aramaic 8th c. BCE
Kharosthi 3rd c. BCE
Brahmi 3rd c. BCE
Brahmic family (see)
Pallava 4th c. CE
Cham 4th c. CE
Dhives Akuru 6th c. CE
Khmer 611 CE
Tibetan 7th c. CE
Phagspa 1269 CE
Devanagari 10th c. CE
Canadian Aboriginal 1840
Hebrew 3rd c. BCE
Square Aramaic Alphabet 2007
Pahlavi 3rd c. BCE
Avestan 4th c. CE
Palmyrene 2nd c. BCE
Nabataean 2nd c. BCE
Arabic 4th c. CE
N'Ko 1949 CE
Syriac 2nd c. BCE
Sogdian 2nd c. BCE
Orkhon (old Turkic) 6th c. CE
Old Hungarian c. 650 CE
Old Uyghur
Mongolian 1204 CE
Mandaic 2nd c. CE
Greek 8th c. BCE
Etruscan 8th c. BCE
Latin 7th c. BCE
Cherokee (syllabary; letter forms only) c. 1820 CE
Vai (syllabary) c. 1832 CE
Deseret 1854 CE
Great Lakes Algonquian 19th c. CE
Blackfoot (influence from Canadian) 1888 CE
Fraser (Old Lisu) 1915 CE
Saanich 1978 CE
Osage 2006 CE
Runic 2nd c. CE
Ogham (origin uncertain) 4th c. CE
Lycian 5th c. BCE
Coptic (influence from Demotic) 3rd c. CE
Gothic 3rd c. CE
Armenian 405 CE
Caucasian Albanian (origin uncertain) c. 420 CE
Georgian (origin uncertain) c. 430 CE
Glagolitic 862 CE
Cyrillic c. 940 CE
Old Permic 1372 CE
Libyco-Berber 10th c. BCE
Tifinagh 4th c. CE
Neo-Tifinagh 1970 CE
Paleohispanic (semi-syllabic) 7th c. BCE
Graphically independent
Hangul 1443 CE (proposed connection to Phagspa)
Thaana c. 1601 CE
Adlam 1989 CE
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The Brahmic scripts, also known as Indic scripts, are a family of abugida writing systems. They are used throughout the Indian subcontinent, Southeast Asia and parts of East Asia. They are descended from the Brahmi script of ancient India and are used by various languages in several language families in South, East and Southeast Asia: Indo-Aryan, Dravidian, Tibeto-Burman, Mongolic, Austroasiatic, Austronesian, and Tai. They were also the source of the dictionary order (gojūon) of Japanese kana.[1]
^Frellesvig, Bjarke (2010). A History of the Japanese Language. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 177–178. ISBN 978-0-521-65320-6.
vowels or missing conjuncts instead of Indic text. The Brahmicscripts, also known as Indic scripts, are a family of abugida writing systems. They are used...
The Pallava script or Pallava Grantha is a Brahmicscript named after the Pallava dynasty of Southern India (Tamilakam) and is attested to since the 4th...
programs that do not interact with the keyboard much. Media related to Brahmic keyboard layouts at Wikimedia Commons It is possible to type baybayin directly...
script (Tamil: கிரந்த எழுத்து, romanized: Grantha ezhuthu; Malayalam: ഗ്രന്ഥലിപി, romanized: granthalipi) was a classical South Indian Brahmicscript...
vowels in Brahmic and Nastaliq scripts to the Latin script. ISO 15919 is an international standard on the romanization of many Brahmicscripts, which was...
Tamil script is written from left to right. The Tamil script, like the other Brahmicscripts, is thought to have evolved from the original Brahmi script. The...
The Ulu scripts, locally known as Surat Ulu ('upstream script') are a family of writing systems found in central and south Sumatra, in the regions of...
characters in this article correctly. The Kawi or Old Javanese script is a Brahmicscript found primarily in Java and used across much of Maritime Southeast...
shares with many related scripts from SE Asia as they derive from variants of the Brahmicscripts of India. Similar to these scripts, vowels other than /a/...
of Odia script. The Odia script (Odia: ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଅକ୍ଷର, romanized: Odiā akṣara, also Odia: ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଲିପି, romanized: Odiā lipi) is a Brahmicscript used to write...
forty-nine letters. The character set is almost identical to that of other Brahmicscripts. Consonantal letters imply an inherent vowel. Letters representing...
and Gurmukhi scripts) use the same symbol. Inspired from Indic scripts, the Santali language also uses a similar symbol in Ol Chiki script: ᱾ (U+1C7E "Ol...
script, also known as Ka-Pat, is an abugida used to write the Tanchangya language. It is in the southern Brahmic family of scripts. Due to its script...
script is of Brahmic origin from the Gupta script and is ancestral to scripts such as Meitei, Lepcha, Marchen and the multilingual ʼPhags-pa script....
evolved into the Arabic and Hebrew scripts. It has also been theorised that the Brahmi and subsequent Brahmicscripts of the Indian cultural sphere also...
India that appeared as a fully developed script in the 3rd century BCE. Its descendants, the Brahmicscripts, continue to be used today across Southern...
scripts of South and Southeast Asia. The Balinese script, along with the Javanese script, is considered the most elaborate and ornate among Brahmic scripts...
associate vowels with consonant symbols. Part of the Brahmicscripts, it is a version of the Indian Brahmi script. It is used to write the Central Asian Indo-European...
script that was historically used in northern India for writing accounts and financial records in Marwari, Hindi and Punjabi. It is a Brahmicscript and...
Gaudi script (Gāuṛi lipi), also known as the Proto-Bengali script or the Proto-Oriya script is an abugida in the Brahmic family of scripts. Gaudi script gradually...
the languages of India written in Brahmicscripts. Tamil keyboards are often digraphic, combining the Tamil script with the Latin alphabet. There are...
to write the Hanunó'o language. It is an abugida descended from the Brahmicscripts, closely related to Sulat Tagalog, and is famous for being written...
The Marchen script was a Brahmic abugida which was used for writing the extinct Zhangzhung language. It was derived from the Tibetan script. As per McKay...
Sukhothai script, also known as the proto-Thai script and Ram Khamhaeng alphabet, is a Brahmicscript which originated in the Sukhothai Kingdom. The script is...
languages of India written in Brahmicscripts, as well as the Santali language, written in the non-Brahmic Ol Chiki script. It was developed by the Indian...
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