The theorised Semitic origins of the Brahmi script are not universally agreed upon.
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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
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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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The Sinhala script (Sinhala: සිංහල අක්ෂර මාලාව, romanized: Siṁhala Akṣara Mālāva), also known as Sinhalese script, is a writing system used by the Sinhalese people and most Sri Lankans in Sri Lanka and elsewhere to write the Sinhala language as well as the liturgical languages Pali and Sanskrit.[3] The Sinhalese Akṣara Mālāva, one of the Brahmic scripts, is a descendant of the Ancient Indian Brahmi script. It is also related to the Grantha script.[4]
The Sinhala script is an abugida written from left to right. Sinhala letters are classified in two sets. The core set of letters forms the śuddha siṃhala alphabet (Pure Sinhala, ශුද්ධ සිංහල), which is a subset of the miśra siṃhala alphabet (Mixed Sinhala, මිශ්ර සිංහල).
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^Handbook of Literacy in Akshara Orthography, R. Malatesha Joshi, Catherine McBride(2019),p.28
^Daniels (1996), p. 408.
^Masica, Colin P. (1993). The Indo-Aryan Languages. p. 143.
of Indic text. The Sinhalascript (Sinhala: සිංහල අක්ෂර මාලාව, romanized: Siṁhala Akṣara Mālāva), also known as Sinhalese script, is a writing system...
It is written using the Sinhalascript, which is a Brahmic script closely related to the Grantha script of South India. Sinhala is one of the official...
also related to the Sinhalascript. Kadamba coinage During the rule of Kadamba dynasty (325-550), major change in the Brahmi script resulted in the Kadamba...
Sri Lanka Sinhala language, the native language of the Sinhalese people Sinhalascript, the writing system of the Sinhala language Sinhala (Unicode block)...
Grantha script. The Southeast Asian and Indonesian scripts such as Thai and Javanese respectively, as well as South Asian Tigalari and Sinhalascripts, are...
single script. Other scripts similar to Kannada script are Sinhalascript (which included some elements from the Kadamba script), and Old Peguan script (used...
garment from Southeast Asia Singh, an Indian title and personal name Sinhalascript (ISO 15924 abbreviation: Sinh) All pages with titles containing sinh...
The Wijesekara keyboard is the standard typewriter keyboard for the Sinhalascript. This keyboard layout was first created and approved by the government...
fix for iOS 11.3 and macOS 10.13.4. Telugu Braille Kannada scriptSinhalascript Grantha script ISO 15919 Indian Epigraphy: A Guide to the Study of Inscriptions...
India such as Sinhala, Grantha and Vatteluttu. There are also some elements from the Kannada-Telugu scripts visible. The form of this script attested in...
Sinhala Braille is one of the many Bharati braille alphabets. While it largely conforms to the letter values of other Bharati alphabets, it diverges in...
XXXX , EY XXXX, EL XXXx . Afterwards in 1956 a new system with the Sinhalascript letter Sri (ශ්රී) in the middle was introduced, this started from Reg...
Sinhala numerals, are the units of the numeral system, originating from the Indian subcontinent, used in Sinhala language in modern-day Sri Lanka. It had...
thread-like, with loops and even knots, and are somewhat reminiscent of Sinhalascript. In a talk at the Oxford University Society of Bibliophiles on 11 May...
collection. Sinhala letters are round-shaped and are written from left to right. They are the most circular-shaped script found in the Indic scripts. The evolution...
the Sinhala language සිංහල [ˈsiŋɦələ]. It has merged in pronunciation with the letter ඞ ṅa in Sinhala. The Telugu script has full-zero (sunna) ం , half-zero...
to sing in both Tamil and Sinhala. See Help:IPA, Sinhala language § Phonology, Sinhalascript § Diacritics and Sinhalascript § Letters. See Help:IPA/Tamil...
Indo-Aryan languages Sinhala and Dhivehi have prenasalized stops. Sinhalascript has prenasalized versions of /g/, /ʥ/, /ɖ/, /d̪/ and /b/. Sinhala is one of only...
population are able to speak Sinhala. It uses the Sinhala abugida script, which is derived from the ancient Brahmi script. About 300 of the Veddah people...
layout used for Lao language. The Sinhala keyboard layout is based on the Wijesekara typewriter for Sinhalascript. The Chinese National Standard on Tibetan...
the letter. In the Sinhalascript, visarga is represented with two small circle to the right of a letter as ඃ. In the Tamil script, similar to visarga...
curlicues are a frequent adornment of lavish text Sinhalascript, the script used to write the Sinhala language, composed almost entirely of curlicues v...
The Pallava script or Pallava Grantha is a Brahmic script named after the Pallava dynasty of Southern India (Tamilakam) and is attested to since the 4th...
known as alibata) is a Philippine script. The script is an abugida belonging to the family of the Brahmic scripts. Geographically, it was widely used...
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