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Brahmi
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Brahmi

Ancient script of Central and South Asia and progenitor of the Brahmic family of scripts

Entitynatural writing systemunicase alphabetabugidaQ185083

Also known as Brahmi script · Brah · Brahmi Lipi · Brāhmī

Instance of
Founded
  • 3rd century BCE

Overview

All data

46 statements · 20% with external sources · numbers in brackets are citations

Based on
Derivative work
Different from
Script directionality
Unicode range
Ended
  • 5th century
Name
Language
Location of creation
Replaced by
Native label
  • 𑀩𑁆𑀭𑀸𑀳𑁆𑀫𑀻 script: Brahmi · language: Sanskrit · iso 15919 transliteration: brāhmī
Started
  • 3 BCE

On other databases

19 identifiers linking Brahmi across the web's reference databases