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  Todo Bichig

  Clear script (or Oirat clear script, Todo bicig, or just Todo) (Mongolian: Тодо бичиг, todo bichig) is a Mongol alphabet created in 1648 by the Oirat Buddhist monk Zaya Pandita Oktorguin Dalai for the Oirat Mongol language. to It was developed on the basis of the traditional Hudum Mongolian...
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  Gujarati script

  The Gujarati script (ગુજરાતી લિપિ Gujǎrātī Lipi), which like all Nāgarī writing systems is strictly speaking an abugida rather than an alphabet, is used to write the Gujarati and Kutchi languages. It is a variant of Devanāgarī script differentiated by the loss of the characteristic horizontal line...
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  Tamil

  The Tamil script (தமிழ் அரிச்சுவடி tamiḻ ariccuvaṭi "Tamil alphabet") is a script that is used to write the Tamil language as well as other minority languages such as Badaga, Irula, and Paniya. With the use of diacritics to represent aspirated and voiced consonants not represented in the basic...
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  Tibetan script

  The Tibetan alphabet is an abugida of Indic origin used to write the Tibetan language as well as the Dzongkha language, Denzongkha, Ladakhi language and sometimes the Balti language. The printed form of the alphabet is called uchen script (Tibetan: དབུ་ཅན་, Wylie: dbu-can; "with a head") while the...
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  Grantha

  Grantha script (Tamil: கிரந்த ௭ழுத்து, Kiranta eḻuttu , Malayalam: ഗ്രന്ഥലിപി, Granthalipi , Sanskrit: ग्रन्थ लिपि, Grantha lipi ) is an ancient script that was widely used between the 6th century and the 19th century CE to write classical Sanskrit and Manipravalam by Tamil speakers in Southern...
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  Soyombo script

  The Soyombo script (Mongolian Соёмбо бичиг, soyombo bichig) is an abugida developed by the Mongolian monk and scholar Bogdo Zanabazar in 1686 to write Mongolian. It can also be used to write Tibetan and Sanskrit. A special character of the script, the Soyombo symbol, became a national symbol of...
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  Brāhmī

  Brāhmī is the modern name given to the oldest script used in India, during the final centuries BCE and the early centuries CE. Like its contemporary in what is now Afghanistan and Pakistan, Kharoṣṭhī, Brāhmī was an alphasyllabary. The best-known Brāhmī inscriptions are the rock-cut edicts of Ashoka...
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  Ranjana script

  The Rañjanā script (syn: Kutila, Lantsa) is an abugida writing system which developed in the 11th century. It is primarily used for writing Nepal Bhasa but is also used in monasteries of India, Tibet, coastal China, Mongolia, and Japan. It is usually written from left to right but the Kutakshar...
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  Script Modi

  Moḍī (मोडी) is one of the scripts used to write the Marathi language, which is the primary language spoken in the state of Maharashtra in western India. There are several theories about the origin of this script. One of them claims that it was developed by Hemadpant (or Hemadri Pandit) during the...
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  Vatteluttu

  Vatteluttu alphabet, also spelled Vattezhuttu alphabet (Tamil: வட்டெழுத்து vaṭṭeḻuttu; Malayalam: വട്ടെഴുത്ത് Vaṭṭeḻuttŭ) (means rounded letters) is an abugida writing system originating from the Tamil people of Southern India. Developed from the Tamili (Tamil-Brahmi), Vatteluttu is one of the...