Brahmi script

Japanese: ブラーフミー文字 - ぶらーふみーもじ
Brahmi script

Ancient Indian script. The Ashoka Inscription is inscribed in this script. From the 4th to 6th centuries, India split into two groups, the northern Brahmi script gave rise to the Siddha-mātkā script, which gave rise to modern Indian scripts such as the Nagari script. The southern Brahmi script gave rise to the Pallava script, which was then used to transcribe Sanskrit texts (Grantha), and so on, which led to the current scripts used to write Dravidian languages. The northern Brahmi script moved further north, and the Tibetan script and other scripts, as well as the southern Brahmi script, crossed the sea to stimulate the creation of scripts in Southeast Asia.

[Toshio Tanaka]

Source: Shogakukan Encyclopedia Nipponica About Encyclopedia Nipponica Information | Legend

Japanese:

古代インド文字。アショカ王碑文はこの文字で刻まれている。4世紀から6世紀にかけて南北両系に分かれ、北方系ブラーフミーBrāhmī文字からシッダマートリカーSiddha-mātkā文字、この文字からナーガリー文字をはじめとする現行インド系文字が成立している。南方系ブラーフミー文字からパッラバPallava文字、続いてサンスクリット語文献(グランタ)を写すためのグランタGrantha文字などが成立し、ドラビダ諸言語を表記する現行諸文字へと連なっている。北方系ブラーフミー文字はさらに北上し、チベット文字をはじめとする諸文字、南方系ブラーフミー文字は海を渡って東南アジアの諸文字の成立に刺激を与えた。

[田中敏雄]

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