ब्राह्मी लिपि
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ब्राह्मी लिपि भारत देशस्य पुरातन लिपि अस्ति। इदं प्राचीन सरस्वती लिपे परिवर्त्तित रूपं अस्ति।
Brahmic scripts are ultimately descended from the Brahmi script for ancient Sanskrit. The most prominent member of the family is Devanagari, which is used to write several languages in India, as well as Nepal, including both Indo-Aryan languages and Dravidian languages. Burmese, Cambodian, Thai, and Tibetan are also written in Brahmic scripts, though with considerable modification to suit their phonology. The Siddham script was especially important in Buddhism because many sutras were written in it, and the art of Siddham calligraphy survives today in Japan.
Characteristics include:
- The inherent vowel is short 'a' (in Bengali, it is short 'o', which comes from Sanskrit short 'a'). Other vowels are written by adding to the character.
- 'u' is written below, short 'i' is written to the left if distinct from long 'i'.
- Consonants can be combined. Special marks are added to denote the combination of 'r' with another consonant.
- Nasalization is written with a dot above the letter.
[edit] List of Brahmic Scripts encoded in Unicode
- Bengali
- Burmese
- Devanagari
- Gurmukhi
- Gujarati
- Hanunoo
- Javanese
- Kannada
- Khmer
- Lao
- Limbu
- Malayalam
- Oriya
- Tai Le
- Tamil
- Telugu
- Thai
- Sinhala
- Tibetan
- Tagalog
[edit] See also
- ISCII — the coding scheme specifically designed to represent Indic scripts.
[edit] External links
- An Introduction to Indic Scripts
- South Asian Writing Systems
- Bonji Siddham Character&Pronunciation
