Brahmic scripts

Writing systems
Abjad
Arabic   Hebrew
Abugida
Canadian syllabic   Ethiopic   North Brahmic   South Brahmic   Thaana
Alphabetical
Armenian   Cyrillic   Georgian   Greek   Hangul   Latin   Mongolian   Osage   Neo-Tifinagh
Logographic and Syllabic
Hanzi [L]   Kana [S] / Kanji [L]     Cherokee [S]
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The Brahmic scripts are a group of writing systems that started in South Asia. It belongs to the Abugida script family. They are used all over the subcontinent and parts of Southeast Asia. These scripts come from the Brahmi script, which began in the Indus Valley region in present-day Pakistan.^[1][2][3] Many languages in South and Southeast Asia use these scripts, and they belong to different language families.^[4]

1. ↑ Illustrated Weekly of Pakistan. Pakistan Herald Publications. 1968.
2. ↑ Ahmed, Mukhtar (2014-10-18). Ancient Pakistan - An Archaeological History: Volume IV: Harappan Civilization - Theoretical and the Abstract. Amazon. ISBN 978-1-4960-8208-4.
3. ↑ Merriam, LL (2022). "Brahmi Script: Origins in the Indus Valley". scholar.archive.org.
4. ↑ DeFrancis, John; Unger, J Marshall (1997). "Peter T. Daniels & William Bright (eds.), The world's writing systems. Oxford & New York: Oxford University Press, 1996. Pp. xlvi, 920". Language in Society. 26 (3): 436–439. doi:10.1017/s0047404500019588. ISSN 0047-4045.