Brahmi

Brahmi is a writing system that was used in ancient India. It is one of the oldest writing systems in the world and it is still used by some people in India today. Brahmi is an abugida, which means that each character represents a syllable. Brahmi was probably invented in the 3rd or 4th century BCE and it was used until about the 7th century CE. The best-known Brahmi inscriptions are the ones on the pillars of Ashoka, which date from the 3rd century BCE. Brahmi was used to write a number of languages, including Sanskrit, Prakrit, and Pali. The Brahmi characters are thought to have been derived from the Aramaic alphabet. Brahmi was the first writing system to use diacritical marks to indicate vowel sounds. The marks were later adopted by other writing systems, such as Devanagari and Tamil. Brahmi is written from left to right. There are no capital letters and the characters are all of equal size. Words are separated by spaces. The punctuation mark is a dot. Brahmi is not an easy writing system to learn. It can take a long time to become proficient in reading and writing Brahmi. However, it is a very beautiful script and it is well worth the effort to learn it.