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Pracalit Script
Prachalit is a type of abugida script developed from the Nepalese scripts, which are a part of the family of Brahmic scripts descended from Brahmi script. It is used to write Nepal Bhasa, Sanskrit and Pali. Various publications are still published in this script including the ''Sikkim Herald'' the bulletin of the Sikkim government (Newari edition). Consonants Vowels Symbols Numerals Unicode Prachalit Nepal script was added to the Unicode Standard in June, 2016 with the release of version 9.0. The Unicode block for Prachalit Nepal, called Newa, is U+11400–U+1147F: See also *Nepalese scripts References Further reading * Covers Prachalit, Ranjana script, Ranjana and Bhujimol, development, current use, information about and drawings of character formation. * External links ScriptSourcepage on Prachalit Nepal script Fontsfor Prachalit, Ranjana script, Ranjana and Brahmi script, Brahmi scripts Noto Sans Newa (GitHub) – a Noto font for Newa {{list of wri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abugida
An abugida (, from Ge'ez language, Ge'ez: ), sometimes known as alphasyllabary, neosyllabary or pseudo-alphabet, is a segmental Writing systems#Segmental writing system, writing system in which consonant-vowel sequences are written as units; each unit is based on a consonant letter, and vowel notation is secondary. This contrasts with a full alphabet, in which vowels have status equal to consonants, and with an abjad, in which vowel marking is absent, Abjad#Impure abjads, partial, or optional (although in less formal contexts, all three types of script may be termed alphabets). The terms also contrast them with a syllabary, in which the symbols cannot be split into separate consonants and vowels. Related concepts were introduced independently in 1948 by James Germain Février (using the term ) and David Diringer (using the term ''semisyllabary''), then in 1959 by Fred Householder (introducing the term ''pseudo-alphabet''). The Ethiopian Semitic languages, Ethiopic term "abugi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
