Re: Data and Musings...
| From: | Roger Mills <romilly@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, October 2, 2001, 16:43 |
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John Cowan wrote:
>> All the scripts of SE Asia are Brahmic in origin, and came there along
with
>> Hinduism and Buddhism (in that order, it seems)-- from the looks of them,
>> mostly from South India/Ceylon. An interesting question to pursue.
>
>Except Dhivehi, I think.
Aha. (checking omniglot again) But the Maldives aren't exactly SE Asia
(quibble). And I am possibly wrong, but isn't Sinhala script _ultimately_
derived from Brahmi too? BTW, _Ahom_ (Assam/India, Tai, extinct?) has a
nice Brahmi derived script too.