Now I am presenting some ancient scripts of India.
As I said in other posts on language and Indian Philosophy, it takes thousands of years to perfect a Language like Tamil, Sanskrit.
The conservative estimate of the Stone age of India is about 28000 years old,
This again, in my opinion is incorrect.
Grantha Script. The Grantha alphabet is a descendent of the Brahmi alphabet and started to emerge during the 5th century AD. Sanskrit was transmitted orally for a long time, and so was mostly written in the local script. (It is only in recent times, since Sanskrit was introduced in the modern universities, that the Devanagari was adopted as the standard.) In Bengal, it was written in the Bengali script; in Andhra, in the Telugu script.Vattezhuthu was the early script used to write Malayalam. Total alphabets were about 30. From the vattezhuthu was derived another script called the kolezhuthu. There is no fundamental difference between the two scripts except that in kolezhuthu there are no specific symbols for endings in u and for a and o. This script was more commonly used in the Cochin and Malabar areas than in Travancore. Yet another script derived from the vattezhuthu was the Malayanma, which was commonly used south to Thiruvananthapuram. Malayanma also does not differ fundamentally from the vattezhuthu.Tamil is a Dravidian language spoken mainly in Tamil Nadu and Sri Lanka. The Tamil alphabet is descended from the Brahmi script of ancient India. The earliest known Tamil inscriptions date back to at least 500 BC.Gurmukhi script.Brahmi is a “syllabic alphabet”, meaning that each sign can be either a simple consonant or a syllable with the consonant and the inherent vowel /a/. Other syllabic alphabets outside of South Asia include Old Persian and Meroïtic. However, unlike these two system, Brahmi (and all subsequent Brahmi-derived scripts) indicates the same consonant with a different vowel by drawing extra strokes, called matras, attached to the character. Ligatures are used to indicate consonant clusters.The Indus Script.Pallava Script 640 ADSanskritHindi and Indian scripts.
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