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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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  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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  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, Irulas, and Paniya. With the use of diacritics to represent aspirated and voiced consonants not represented in the basic...
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  Grantha

  Grantha script (Tamil: கிரந்த ௭ழுத்து, Malayalam: ഗ്രന്ഥലിപി, Sanskrit: ग्रन्थ grantha meaning "book" or "manuscript") is an ancient script that was prevalent in South India. It is generally supposed to have evolved from Brahmi, another ancient Indic script. It has influenced the Malayalam, Tulu,...
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  Sinhala alphabet

  The Sinhala script is an abugida script used in Sri Lanka to write the official language Sinhala and also sometimes the liturgical languages Pali and Sanskrit. Being a member of the Brahmic family of scripts, the Sinhala script can trace its ancestry back more than 2000 years. Sinhala is often...
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  Brāhmī

  Brāhmī is the modern name given to the oldest members of the Brahmic family of alphabets. The best known inscriptions in Brāhmī are the rock-cut edicts of Ashoka in north-central India, dated to the 3rd century BCE. These are traditionally considered the earliest known examples of Brāhmī writing,...
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  Tamil-Brahmi

  Tamil-Brahmi was an early variant of the Brahmi script used to write Tamil characters. It is also known as the Tamili script. It is distinguished from standard Asokan Brahmi, by an inherent vowel marker for pure consonants and consonants. Iravatham Mahadevan, an authority on the Tamil-Brahmi script...
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  Malayalam script

  The Malayalam script (Malayalam: മലയാളലിപി, Malayāḷalipi ) is an abugida (syllabic alphabet) of the Brahmic family, mainly used in the Indian state of Kerala to write the Malayalam language. Malayalam language is one of the Dravidian languages, spoken by about 36,000,000 people (1997) primarily in...
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  Script Modi

  Moḍī (मोडी) is the name of 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)...
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  ’Phagspa script

  The 'Phags-pa script (Mongolian: дөрвөлжин үсэг dörvöljin üseg "square script"; Tibetan: ཧོར་ཡིག་གསར་པ་ hor yig gsar pa "new Mongolian script" or Chinese: 蒙古新字 měnggǔ xīnzì "new Mongolian script") was an abugida designed by the Tibetan Lama ´Gro-mgon Chos-rgyal ´Phags-pa (Drogön Chögyal Phagpa) for...