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	Brahmi alphabet
		The Brahmi alphabet is the ancestor of most of the 40 or so modern Indian alphabets, and of a number of other alphabets, such as Khmer and Tibetan.
		The structure of the Brahmi alphabet is similar to that of modern Indian alphabets: each letters represents a consonant with a inherent vowels /a/.
		Ahom, Balinese, Batak, Bengali, Brahmi, Buhid, Burmese, Cham, Dehong Dai/Tai Le, Devanagari, Ethiopic, Grantha, Gujarati, Gurmukhi (Punjabi), Hanuno'o, Hmong, Javanese, Kannada, Kharosthi, Khmer, Lanna, Lao, Lepcha, Limbu, Lontara/Makasar, Malayalam, Manpuri, Modi, Oriya, Phags-pa, Ranjana, Redjang, Sharda, Siddham, Sinhala, Sorang Sompeng, Sourashtra, Soyombo, Syloti Nagri, Tagalog, Tagbanwa, Tai Dam, Tamil, Telugu, Thai, Tibetan, Tocharian, Varang Kshiti
	www.omniglot.com /writing/brahmi.htm (244 words)

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		The Brahmi alphabet was the first of a type of alphabet called an abugida.
		The Brahmi alphabet was probably derived from Semitic alphabets and arose in India sometime before 500 BC
		The inscriptions of the Emperor Ashoka, who reigned from 272 BC to 232 BC, are the earliest known incriptions in the Brahmi alphabet.
	www.informationclub.com /encyclopedia/b/br/brahmi_alphabet.html (116 words)

	Alphabet
		Alphabet of Thorn Alphabet of Thorn is a Patricia A. McKillip, ISBN 0441011306.
		Coptic alphabet The Coptic alphabet is an Egyptian alphabet.
		It is the alphabet that was used by the Ethiopic alphabets.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /topics/alphabet.html (1663 words)

	Encyclopedia: Brahmi
		The Brahmi numerals are an indigenous Indian numeral system attested from the 3rd century BCE (somewhat later in the case of most of the tens).
		BrÄhmÄ« is generally believed to be derived from a Semitic script such as the Imperial Aramaic alphabet, as was clearly the case for the contempory Kharosthi alphabet that arose in a part of northwest Indian under the control of the Achaemenid Empire.
		A glance at the oldest Brahmi inscriptions shows striking parallels with contemporary Aramaic for the half of the phonemes that are equivalent between the two languages, especially if the letters are flipped to reflect the change in writing direction.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Brahmi (1954 words)

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		This is a reasonable point, and it would be more accurate to describe the Brahmi presented here as '2nd and 3rd Century Mathuran' Brahmi since it is the form that tended to be found in Mathura in the second and third century AD.
		However, this is a cumbersome way to work, so the term Kushan Brahmi is used here, to refer to the sequence of inscriptions from Mathura belonging (mostly) to the period between Kanishka I and Vasishka.
		When Brahmi is used to indicate a cluster of consonants, the symbols for both consonants (and in some cases three consonants) are combined together to form a ligature.
	www.kushan.org /essays/brahmi/alphabet.htm (766 words)

	ALPHABET - LoveToKnow Article on ALPHABET
		As Biihler shows in detail, the Kharosthi alphabet is derived from the alphabet of the Aramaic inscriptions which date from the earlier part of the Achaemenid period.
		The people of India already possessed their Brahmi alphabet, of these alphabets is drawn from this work and from the same author's Indische Palaographie in the Grundriss tier indo-arischen Philologie, to which is attached an atlas of plates (Strassburg, 1896), and in which a full bibliography is given.
		The Semitic alphabet is excellently treated by Lidzbarski in the Jewish Encyclopaedia (1901); his Nordsemitische Epigraphik (1898) has excellent facsimiles and tables of the alphabets, and there are many contributions to the history of the alphabet in the same writer's Ephemerisfiir semitische Epigraphik (Giessen, since 1900).
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /A/AL/ALPHABET.htm (1621 words)

	AncientScripts.com: Brahmi (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		Yet on the other hand, the way Brahmi, and its relative Kharosthi, works is quite different from Semitic scripts, and may point to either a stimulus-diffusion or even indigenous origin.
		Brahmi is a "syllabic alphabet", meaning that each sign can be either a simple consonant or a syllable with the consonant and the inherent vowel /a/.
		Thus the Brahmi script was the Indian equivalent of the Greek script that gave arise to a host of different systems.
	www.ancientscripts.com /brahmi.html (497 words)

	bengali alphabet translation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		The Bengali alphabet is derived from the Brahmi alphabet.
		It is also closely related to the Devanagari alphabet, from which it started to diverge in the 11th Century AD.
		It is said to have emerged as a separate language in around 1000 A.D. from Brahmi alphabet of the Ashokan inscriptions.
	www.language-translation-services.com /bengali_alphabet_translation/bengali-alphabet-translation.html (346 words)

	Brahmi (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		Brahmi is semialphabetic, each consonant having either an inherent a sound pronounced after it or a diacritic mark to show another vowel; initial vowels have separate characters.
		In most cases Brahmi and its derivatives are written from left to right, but a coin of the 4th century BC, discovered in Madhya Pradesh, is inscribed with Brahmi characters running from right to left.
		Brahmi Script appeared in India by the 5th century BCE, but the fact that just like the Greek alphabet, it has many local variants, which suggests that its origin lies further back in time.
	www.crystalinks.com /brahmi.html (181 words)

	Forgotten Scripts By Dino Manzella
		I, in turn, showed it to all of my friends at school and we used the alphabet to pass notes in class without fear of their contents being revealed.
		I knew that the runic alphabet actually existed because I saw forms of it in pictures and on lead figures all over the fantasy role-playing world.
		For instance, while questing for magical celestial alphabets -- I found myself in old seminary colleges thumbing through their oldest books that holy men of ages past used in the casting of white magic spells.
	www.afternight.com /runes/runes1.htm (757 words)

	A New Theory on the Origin and Evolution of Brahmi Alphabet
		Phonetics of Brahmi characters have been successfully used by Professor B.B. Chakravorty as bridges to decipher Indus legends.
		The author has established that all Brahmi characters excepting three on four can be created by applying the principle of acrophony to the ancient Indo-Aryan language.
		Therefore, he concluded the source of both Brahmi and Semitic alphabets are the Indust character themselves.
	www.easternbookcorporation.com /moreinfo.php?txt_searchstring=9407 (191 words)

	The Sharada Script: Origin and Development
		Like the Brahmi and the Kharoshti in the ancient period, the Sharada script in the early medieval period formed a vital link in the chain of communication of ideas, knowledge, and culture among the states comprised in the Western Hirnalayan region.
		The alphabet continued to be used in Himachal Pradesh and Punjab up to the 13th century when it was replaced by its descendant, the Devashesha which in turn gave rise to the modern alphabets of Gurmukhi and Takari.
		While the use of the Sharada alphabet in the inscriptions dates from the 8th century A.D. its use in the manuscripts, however, is not known earlier than the 12th century when we find it first used in a manuscript discovered from the village Bakhshali in the Peshawar district of Pakistan11.
	www.koausa.org /Languages/Sharda.html (3561 words)

	sinhala alphabet translation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		The Bengali alphabet is a syllabic alphabet in which consonants...
		A mixed Sinhala alphabet (Mishra Sinhala Akshara Malawa) consists of 18 vowels and 41 consonants...
		Sinhala (Sri Lanka) is a syllabic alphabet in that it consists of consonants with vowel signs.
	www.sinhalaword.net /computer-translation-sinhala/sinhala-alphabet-translation.html (432 words)

	Evolution of Alphabets (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		Nearly all modern alphabets are descended from an alphabet invented 4000 years ago, probably by a group of people related to the ancient Hebrews, Phoenicians, and Canaanites, living in what is now the Sinai desert.
		The Latin alphabet, ancestor of most western European alphabets, is derived from the Greek, but was also influenced by the nearby Etruscan version of the alphabet.
		The alphabets of south and southeast Asia are all derived from the Brahmi alphabet, which in turn is loosely based on the Aramaic.
	www.ship.edu /~cgboeree/evolalpha.html (458 words)

	Brahmi - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Brahmi (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		Brahmi refers to the pre-modern members of the Brahmic family of scripts, attested from the 5th century BC.
		The best known inscriptions in Brahmi are the rock-cut edicts of Ashoka, c.
		A minority position holds Indus script to be the predecessor of the Brahmi script.
	www.encyclopedia-glossary.com /en/Brahmi.html (113 words)

	The Lowest Protocol -- Plain HTML Version
		Brahmi spread throughout India and Asia following religions, and is the forefather of a wide family of scripts.
		Introduction to the Hebrew alphabet: the letters in printed and manuscript form, their transliteration and audio files with Modern Hebrew sounds.
		Anyway, invented alphabets (but aren't them all?) are not only for science-fiction: they exist also in science tout court and are used by linguists to provide formal spellings for modern, ancient, or supposed languages.
	www.brianzaest.it /SCUOLE/gonzaga/alfabet/epurehtm.html (1799 words)

	JAARS Museum of the Alphabet: Indic Alphabets
		After the Roman and Arabic alphabets, the Indic is the most extensively used in the world.
		Others believe that India's parent alphabet, the Brahmi, was developed from the Early Aramaic as a result of sea trade between Babylon and India (800 to 600 B.C.)
		Brahmi has in turn influenced alphabets throughout Southeast Asia, Mongolia, and possibly even Korea and Ethiopia.
	www.jaars.org /museum/alphabet/galleries/indic.htm (194 words)

	AncientScripts.com: Thai (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		The Thai script is a syllabic alphabet based on the Brahmi script adapted to write the Thai or Siamese language.
		It is also possible that the Khmer alphabet might have had an influence on the Thai alphabet.
		Another peculiar characteristic of the Thai alphabet is that each letter is classified into one of three classes: low, middle, and high.
	www.ancientscripts.com /thai.html (647 words)

	bangla alphabet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		The first letter of the Bangla alphabet produces a sound that cannot be unambiguously coded by the...
		The Origin of Bangla Alphabet::Bangla alphabet originated from Brahmi alphabet of the Asokan inscriptions.
		Bangla alphabet originated from Brahmi alphabet of the Asokan inscriptions.
	www.language-translation-services.com /bangla_alphabet_translation/bangla-alphabet.html (355 words)

	K.L. Kalla: About Languages and Scripts
		The earliest phase is represented by the inscriptions and the coins of the 8th to 10th centuries; the second by those of the 11th to 14th centuries; and the third and final by the epigraphic and literary record of the 14th and the subsequent centuries."6
		This alphabet finally led to the SHARDA alphabets in the 8th and the 9th centuries.
		Anand Koul Bamzai, Sharda alphabets were used in stone inscriptions even up to the 18th century; this is corroborated by his discovery of a Sharda inscription dated Vikram 1846 (1789 A.D.) The Sharda script is said to have reached perfection by the middle of the I 5th and the 1 6th centuries.
	www.koausa.org /Languages/KLKalla.html (1342 words)

	Dr.Gift Siromoney's Home Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		If the Brahmi alphabet was not borrowed, some scholars argue, it must be possible to derive it from the signs of the Indus script.
		The basis we have for postulating the spontaneous invention of the Brahmi script, as against a continuous evolutionary derivation, is as follows.
		The square, the cross, the circle, and the vertical line are all examples of letters of the Brahmi alphabet extracted from the two basic geometric patterns.
	www.cmi.ac.in /gift/Epigraphy/epig_invention.htm (1076 words)

	Search Results for brahmi - Encyclopædia Britannica
		Brahmi script of north India, possibly connected with the late Maurya scripts and the early Kalinga character, and associated with the Sunga dynasty (c.
		The Aramaic alphabet was probably the prototype of the Brahmi script of India, the ancestor of all Indian scripts.
		The bulk of the Tocharian materials were carried to Berlin by the Prussian expeditions of 1903–04 and 1906–07, which explored the Turfan...
	www.britannica.com /search?query=brahmi&submit=Find&source=MWTEXT (317 words)

	Dr.Gift Siromoney's Home Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		The Brahmi script of Asoka, therefore, is at least as old as the third century BC.
		The presence of vowel-markers is an important aspect of the Brahmi alphabet.
		In Brahmi the writing is from left to right and we have a developed system of vowel-markers which are arranged in such a way that there is not much ambiguity between the different simple and compound signs.
	www.cmi.ac.in /gift/Epigraphy/epig_origin.htm (2888 words)

	Indian numerals
		The Brahmi numerals have been found in inscriptions in caves and on coins in regions near Poona, Bombay, and Uttar Pradesh.
		The Brahmi numerals came from the Brahmi alphabet.
		One is that the numerals came from an alphabet in a similar way to the Greek numerals which were the initial letters of the names of the numbers.
	www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk /~history/PrintHT/Indian_numerals.html (2462 words)

	Alex's homepage
		The Javanese script, also known as tjarakan or carakan, was ultimately derived from Brahmi alphabet, by way of the Kawi or Old Javanese alphabet.
		The earliest known writing in Javanese dates from the 4th Century AD, at which time Javanese was written with the Pallava alphabet, a variety of the Devanagari alphabet.
		By the 10th Century, the Kawi alphabet, which developed from the Pallava alphabet, had a distinct Javanese form.
	home.wanadoo.nl /~a_agung/jawa.html (269 words)

	Batak alphabet - TheBestLinks.com - Alphabet, Abugida, Diacritic, Indonesia, ...
		Batak alphabet, Alphabet, Abugida, Diacritic, Indonesia, Sumatra, Austronesian...
		The Batak alphabet is a type of alphabet called an abugida that is used to write the Batak languages of northern Sumatra, an Austronesian language spoken by about three million people on the Indonesian island of Sumatra.
		The Batak alphabet was probably derived from Pallava and Old Kawi alphabets, which ultimately were derived from the Brahmi alphabet, the root of almost all the Indic and Southeast Asian abugidas.
	www.thebestlinks.com /Batak_alphabet.html (202 words)

	Brahmi alphabet Books
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		The Palaeography of Brahmi Script in Andhra : (C. by B.
		A New Theory on the Origin and Evolution of Brahmi Alphabet
	www.allbookstores.com /Brahmi_Alphabet.html (107 words)

	assamese alphabet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		The Bengali alphabet is a syllabic alphabet in which consonants all have an inherent vowel which has two...
		The Assamese alphabet is almost identical with the.
		the vowel letters of the Assamese alphabet because in the Sanskrit alphabet it is a kind of vowel...
	www.assamese.info /assamese-english-free-translation/assamese-alphabet.html (349 words)

	Devanagari -- Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - The online encyclopedia you can trust! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		In practice, the script—though alphabetic in origin—is syllabic, with a short a sound being understood after each consonant unless the sign for an alternative vowel is used; in the past, Devanagari was frequently written without the vowel signs, sometimes resulting in confusion.
		Kharosti, used in the northwest, is of Aramaic origin and is written from right to left; Brahmi, of North Semitic origin, is written from left to right and appears earliest on Asokan inscriptions in areas other than the northwest.
		It was developed out of Brahmi and was spread with the Gupta empire over large areas of conquered territory, with the...
	www.britannica.com /ebc/article-9030145 (462 words)

	AL-PHASI, ISAAC - LoveToKnow Article on AL-PHASI, ISAAC (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		The Kharosthi is then the gradual development under local conditions of the Aramaic alphabet of the Persian period.
		As Stein's explorations show, both alphabets may be found on opposite sides of the same_piece of wood.
		" The Archaic Inscriptions and the Greek Alphabet " (1887), pt.
	92.1911encyclopedia.org /A/AL/AL_PHASI_ISAAC.htm (1471 words)

	GreatCoin.com - Products (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		Armenia has its very own alphabet, which was modeled after the Greek alphabet and modified in 401 – 406 A.D. The Armenian alphabet has 39 letters.
		The Bengali alphabet in its present printed form took shape in 1778 when printing types were first cast.
		This is a good note to collect if you are interested in world alphabets or if you are interested in notes with animals on them.
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