Brahmic scripts

Family of abugida writing systemsBrāhmī written in the Brahmi script, the shared ancestor of the Brahmic family of writing systemsThe Brahmic scripts, also known as Indic scripts, are a family of abugidawriting systems. They are descended from the Brahmi script of ancient India and are used by various languages in several language families in South, East, Central and Southeast Asia: Indo-Aryan, Dravidian, Tibeto-Burman, Turkic, Mongolic, Austroasiatic, Austronesian, and Tai. They were also the source of the dictionary order (gojūon) of Japanesekana. HistoryA fragment of Ashoka's 6th pillar edict, in Brahmi, the ancestor of all Brahmic scriptsSpread of Brahmic family of scripts (and Kharosthi) from the subcontinentBrahmic scripts descended from the Brahmi script. Brahmi is clearly attested from the 3rd century BCE during the reign of Ashoka, who used the script for imperial edicts. Northern Brahmi gave rise to the Gupta script during the Gupta period, which in turn diversified into a number of cursives during the medieval period. Notable examples of such medieval scripts, developed by the 7th or 8th century, include Nagari, Siddham and Sharada. The Siddhaṃ script was especially