Jun 27 2023
Over time, the Brahmi script branched out into numerous regional and derivative scripts in South and Southeast Asia. Among these are the Gupta script, Kharosthi, and the scripts of early Buddhist inscriptions in Sri Lanka. The modern writing systems of several languages in India and beyond trace their roots back to Brahmi. These include Devanagari (used for Hindi, Marathi, and Nepali), Bengali, Gujarati, Gurmukhi (used for Punjabi), Oriya, Tamil, Telugu, and more. It even influenced the writing systems of Southeast Asia, such as Burmese, Thai, and Lao.
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