India

11 scripts

Used for Hindi, Sanskrit, Nepali, Marathi, and over 120 other languages. The distinctive h...

Essentially the Persian variant of the Arabic script. Written right to left. Has 38 letter...

See Devanagari main entry. Sanskrit texts are predominantly written in Devanagari....

Used by the Indus Valley or Harappan civilization, one of the earliest urban societies. Ar...

The ancestor of nearly every script of South and Southeast Asia, from Devanagari to Thai a...

The refined descendant of Brahmi used across the Gupta empire, a golden age of Sanskrit li...

A late Brahmic script prized as the vehicle of Buddhist tantra. Pilgrims carried it to Chi...

A medieval Brahmic script created mainly for writing Sanskrit in Tamil country. Preserved ...

One of the major Dravidian scripts, developed from the Kadamba and Chalukya variants of Br...

The classical script of Karnataka, sibling of Telugu within the southern Brahmic family. N...

The ancient script of Manipur in northeastern India. Replaced by Bengali letters for centu...