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| | Brahmi Script (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07) |
 | | Brahmi quickly became the official script of religious texts and cults, and therefore spread over all India. |
 | | Brahmi is a syllabary, it consists of syllables only, if we state that single vowels are also syllables. |
 | | The Brahmi script is the ancestor of practically all modern Indian writing systems, at all there are about 40 varieties of them nowadays, including Tibetan, Singhalese, Sharada, Newari, Bengali, Oriya, Gujarati, Gurmukhi, Lahnda, Kannada, Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam, Burmese, Khmer, Lao, Thai, Devanagari. |
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