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The Brahmi Stock
The Brahmi ("Brahma's") script has been used India since 4 to 8
centuries b.C.
Possibly introduced from the Semitic area, Brahmi spread throughout India
and Asia following religions, and is the forefather of a wide family of
scripts in Northern India (e.g. Devanagari), Southern India (e.g. Tamil),
South-East Asia (e.g. Thai), Himalaya (e.g. Tibetan).
Brahmi-derived scripts are alphabetic: consonants are represented by
letters, while vowels are indicated by modifying marks. Compared to
Phoenician-derived alphabets, however, Brahmi and its derivatives have
somewhat a syllabic nature; in fact, if not explicitly marked,
consonants are implicitly associated to an inherent vowel.
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