Writing systems descended from the ancient Brahmi script of India, abugidas in which each consonant carries an inherent vowel that marks change. The family spread with Buddhism and Hinduism across South and Southeast Asia and Tibet, and its scripts carry Sanskrit, Pali and many living languages. Its characters are written left to right and are arranged in a traditional order based on where in the mouth each sound is produced. Members placed here so far include Devanagari, Gurmukhi, Brahmi, Siddhamatrka, Kannada Script.
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Devanagari (Wikipedia)
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Also simply called Nāgarī (Sanskrit: नागरी, Nāgarī), it is a left-to-right abugida (a type of segmental writing system), based on the ancient Brāhmī script.
Gurmukhi (Wikipedia)
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Gurmukhī (Punjabi: ਗੁਰਮੁਖੀ [ˈɡʊɾᵊmʊkʰiː], Shahmukhi: گُرمُکھی) is an abugida developed from the Laṇḍā scripts, popularly believed to have been standardized and used by the second Sikh guru, Guru Angad (1504-1552).
Brahmi script (Wikipedia)
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Brahmi ( BRAH-mee; 𑀩𑁆𑀭𑀸𑀳𑁆𑀫𑀻; ISO: Brāhmī) is a writing system from ancient India that appeared as a fully developed script in the 3rd century BCE.
Siddhaṃ script (Wikipedia)
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Also known in its later evolved form as Siddhamātṛkā, Siddham is a medieval Brahmic abugida, derived from the Gupta script and ancestral to the Nāgarī, Eastern Nagari, Tirhuta, Odia and Nepalese scripts.
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Siddhaṃ (Sanskrit pronunciation: [sidːʱɐ̃]) (also known as Kutila) is an Indic script used in India from the 6th century to the 13th century.
View the SourceKannada script (Wikipedia)
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The Kannada script (IAST: Kannaḍa lipi; obsolete: Kanarese or Canarese script in English) is an abugida of the Brahmic family, used to write Kannada, one of the Dravidian languages of South India especially in the state of Karnataka.
Tibetan script (Wikipedia)
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The Tibetan script is a segmental writing system, or abugida, forming a part of the Brahmic scripts, and used to write certain Tibetic languages, including Tibetan, Dzongkha, Sikkimese, Ladakhi, Jirel and Balti.
Omniglot: Khmer language, alphabet and pronunciation
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The Khmer alphabet closely resembles the Thai and Lao alphabets, which developed from it.
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