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The Western Cham people are mostly Muslim [9] and therefore prefer the Arabic script. The Eastern Cham are mostly Hindu and continued to use the Indic script. During French colonial times, both groups had to use the Latin alphabet. [citation needed] There are two varieties of the Cham script: Akhar Thrah (Eastern Cham) and Akhar Srak (Western ...
The Tifinagh alphabet is still actively used to varying degrees in trade and modernized forms for writing of Berber languages (Tamazight, Tamashek, etc.) of the Maghreb, Sahara, and Sahel regions (Savage 2008). Neo-Tifinagh is encoded in the Unicode range U+2D30 to U+2D7F, starting from version 4.1.0. There are 55 defined characters, but there ...
The Georgian scripts are the three writing systems used to write the Georgian language: Asomtavruli, Nuskhuri and Mkhedruli.Although the systems differ in appearance, their letters share the same names and alphabetical order and are written horizontally from left to right.
ည didn't include at the original Western Pwo Alphabet. [2] At that time, /ɲ/ was written as နၠ. Today, this is found in အနၠါမုနံၩ /ʔə ɲâ mɯ̂ ní/ 'Tuesday'. ၦ was included in the original Western Pwo alphabet. ၦ is a special character that is used to write the prefix ၦ /pə-/ denoting a human being.
[9] [10] It is commonly referred to as the Bengali script by Bengalis [11] and the Assamese script by the Assamese, [12] while in academic discourse it is sometimes called Eastern-Nāgarī. [13] Three of the 22 official languages of the Indian Republic — Bengali , Assamese , and Meitei [ a ] [ 14 ] —commonly use this script in writing; [ 15 ...
The system embodies two principles: (1) alphabetic letters from the English alphabet are used to write Ojibwe but with Ojibwe sound values; (2) the system is phonemic in nature in that each letter or letter combination indicates its basic sound value and does not reflect all the phonetic detail that occurs. Accurate pronunciation thus cannot be ...
It consisted of 465 pictograms (511 according to some sources) and 10 characters for the digits 1–10. The writing direction could be top-to-bottom, left-to-right, or bottom-to-top. (Right-to-left was avoided because that was the direction of the Arabic script used by the neighboring Hausa people .)
The Bengali alphabet or Bangla alphabet (Bengali: বাংলা বর্ণমালা, bangla bôrnômala) or Bengali script (Bengali: বাংলা লিপি, bangla lipi) is the writing system, originating in the Indian subcontinent, for the Bengali language and is the fifth most widely used writing system in the world.