Brahmi

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1. Brahmi - Noun

2. Brahmi - Proper noun

Meaning

a script (probably adapted from the Aramaic about the 7th century BC) from which later Indian scripts developed

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Comparison Below are comparison charts of several of the major Indic scripts, organised on the principle that glyphs in the same column all derive from the same Brahmi glyph. Source: Internet

Both languages are recorded in alphabetic scripts ultimately derived from the Brahmi script of Ancient India. Source: Internet

Before that epoch, the Brahmi numeral system was in use; that system did not encompass the concept of the place-value of numbers. Source: Internet

Brahmi numerals have symbols for the nine numbers 1–9, the nine decades 10–90, plus a symbol for 100 and another for 1000. Source: Internet

Cursives of the Brahmi script began to diversify further from around the 5th century AD and continued to give rise to new scripts throughout the Middle Ages. Source: Internet

Instead, Brahmi numerals included additional symbols for the tens, as well as separate symbols for hundred and thousand. Source: Internet

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