Tirhuta script

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Tirhuta Mithilakshar 𑒞𑒱𑒩𑒯𑒳𑒞𑒰‎‎
Script type	Abugida
Time period	c. 13th century–present day[1]
Direction	Left-to-right
Languages	Maithili, Sanskrit
Related scripts
Parent systems	Proto-Sinaitic script Phoenician alphabet Aramaic alphabet Brāhmī Gupta Siddhaṃ[2] Gaudi[3] Tirhuta
Sister systems	Bengali–Assamese, Odia
ISO 15924
ISO 15924	Tirh (326), ​Tirhuta
Unicode
Unicode alias	Tirhuta
Unicode range	U+11480–U+114DF Final Accepted Script Proposal

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The Tirhuta or Maithili script was the primary historical script for the Maithili language, as well as one of the historical scripts for Sanskrit. It is believed to have originated in the 10th century CE. It is very similar to Bengali–Assamese script, with most consonants being effectively identical in appearance. For the most part, writing in Maithili has switched to the Devanagari script, which is used to write neighbouring Central Indic languages to the west and north such as Hindi and Nepali, and the number of people with a working knowledge of Tirhuta has dropped considerably in recent years.