Indian writings

The characteristic Indian scripts in the narrower sense, the descendants of the Brahmi script , are dealt with under Indian scriptures . These are common not only in India but also in Southeast Asia.

Other autochthonous Indian scripts are:

• the extinct, not yet deciphered script of the Indus culture ,
• the also no longer used Kharoshthi script, which was in use at about the same time as the Brahmi script in India,
• Ol Chiki (for the Indian Munda language Santali ),
• Thaana (for the Indo-Aryan language Dhivehi in the Maldives ).

Also in use on the Indian subcontinent are:

• the Arabic- Persian script (with special characters for the languages ​​used, including Urdu , Sindhi and Kashmiri ),
• the Latin script (in India next to Devanagari and other scripts for the Konkani spoken in Goa as well as for some Austro-Asian and Tibetan-Burmese languages ; also for English , which is one of the official languages ​​of India).

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