Aśokan Southern Brāhmī script

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Aśokan Southern Brāhmī script

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Indo-Aryan languages
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…right and appears earliest on Aśokan inscriptions in areas other than the northwest. Most scripts of New Indo-Aryan are developments of the Brāhmī. The Devanāgarī (or simply Nāgarī), used for writing Sanskrit documents in North India, is the script of Hindī and Marāṭhī as well as Nepālī. Gujarātī uses a…
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…right and appears earliest on Aśokan inscriptions in areas other than the northwest. Most scripts of New Indo-Aryan are developments of the Brāhmī. The Devanāgarī (or simply Nāgarī), used for writing Sanskrit documents in North India, is the script of Hindī and Marāṭhī as well as Nepālī. Gujarātī uses a…
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