Brahmi script

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title: Brahmi script
text: Brahmi is a writing system of ancient India that appeared as a fully developed script in the 3rd century BCE. Its descendants, the Brahmic scripts, continue to be used today across Southern and Southeastern Asia. Brahmi is an abugida which uses a system of diacritical marks to associate vowels with consonant symbols. The writing system only went through relatively minor evolutionary changes from the Mauryan period down to the early Gupta period, and it is thought that as late as the 4th century
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description: Ancient script of Central and South Asia
original url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brahmi_script
date created: 2003-07-29T23:41:55Z
date modified: 2024-09-10T13:30:00Z
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