[a] The Semitic origin of the Brahmic scripts is not universally agreed upon.
Brahmic scripts
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Northern Brahmic
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Landa
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Multani
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Siddham
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Zanabazar square
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Bhaiksuki
Tocharian
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Tamil-Brahmi
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Proto-Tai script?
Sukhothai
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Lai Pao
Cham
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Balinese
Batak
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Ulu scripts
Incung
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Serawai
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Hanunoo
Tagbanwa
Kulitan
Mon–Burmese
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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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The Mon alphabet (Mon: အက္ခရ်မန်listenⓘ;, Burmese: မွန်အက္ခရာlistenⓘ;, Thai: อักษรมอญlistenⓘ) is a Brahmic abugida used for writing the Mon language. It is an example of the Mon-Burmese script, which derives from the Pallava Grantha script of southern India.[2]
^Diringer, David (1948). Alphabet a key to the history of mankind. p. 411.
^Monzel, Bee Htaw (2019). Epigraphy as a source for history of Old Burma, Advancing Southeast Asian Archaeology 201, Selected Papers from the Third SEAMEO SPAFA International Conference on Southeast Asian Archaeology. Thailand: SEAMEO SPAFA Regional Centre for Archaeology and Fine Arts. p. 54 -57.
The Monalphabet (Mon: အက္ခရ်မန်listen;, Burmese: မွန်အက္ခရာlisten;, Thai: อักษรมอญlisten) is a Brahmic abugida used for writing the Mon language. It is...
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André-Georges. 2010. "The Origin of the Peculiarities of the Vietnamese Alphabet." Mon-Khmer Studies 39: 89–104. Translated from: Haudricourt, André-Georges...
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came from, But the most accepted theory is that it descends from Aramaic alphabet, with similarities with several of the glyphs. The Siddhaṃ script was especially...
or Bangla alphabet (Bengali: বাংলা বর্ণমালা, romanized: Bangla bôrṇômala, Meitei: বেঙ্গলি ময়েক, romanized: Bengali mayek) is the alphabet used to write...
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also known as the KaGaNga script following the first three letters of the alphabet. The term KaGaNga was never used by the users of the script community,...
the Khmer script of Angkor with additional influence from the Mon script. Both Khmer and Mon were ultimately derived from the Pallava script of South India...
አቡጊዳ) – sometimes also called alphasyllabary, neosyllabary, or pseudo-alphabet – is a segmental writing system in which consonant–vowel sequences are...
nɔ̑ːj/, cf. Lao: ອັກສອນໄທນ້ອຍ BGN/PCGN Akson Tai Noy, lit. 'Little Tai alphabet') is also called To Lao (Northeastern Thai: โตลาว /to: láːo/, cf. Lao:...
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