Brahmic

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Brahmic (not comparable)

(linguistics, chiefly of writing systems) Related or belonging to a certain family of abugidas used to write many languages of South and Southeast Asia, descended from the Brāhmī script.

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Abugidas include the extensive Brahmic family of scripts of South and Southeast Asia. Source: Internet

Principle As a Brahmic abugida, the fundamental principle of Devanagari is that each letter represents a consonant, which carries an inherent schwa vowel. Source: Internet

In the northern group, the Gupta script was very influential, and in the southern group the Vatteluttu and Old-Kannada Pallava scripts with the spread of Buddhism sent Brahmic scripts throughout Southeast Asia. Source: Internet

It uses diacritics to map the much larger set of Brahmic graphemes to the Latin script. Source: Internet

Daniels (1996), p. 408. Being a member of the Brahmic family of scripts, the Sinhalese script can trace its ancestry back more than 2,500 years. Source: Internet

Shorthand Several systems of shorthand use diacritics for vowels, but they do not have an inherent vowel, and are thus more similar to Thaana and Kurdish script than to the Brahmic scripts. Source: Internet

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