Indic scripts

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The family tree ([1]) of the scripts of the South and South-East Asian sub-continent. Brahmi may be concluded as the mother of all the indic scripts by a conservative evaluation and was first deciphered by James Prinsep, an architect and orientalist.

All the offshoots of Brahmi has the elementary attributes of the Abugida script, a type of writing system in which each character represents a consonant followed by a specific vowel, and the other vowels are represented by a consistent modification of the consonant symbols.

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• Brahmic scripts