The Sinhala script is based on one of the two most important scripts of Central India in pre-Christian times: the Brahmi script and the Kharashthi script. Emperor Ashoka used both scripts in his ...

Raamesh Gowri Raghavan first encountered the Brahmi script back in the 1990s. “These were Ashokan inscriptions,” says the Mumbai-based writer, epigraphist, digital marketer and scientist.

Read on how a city-based filmmaker, Akshay Golecha, translated the National Anthem into the 2,200-year-old Brahmi script for various cinema halls One of the verses of the National Anthem ...

South and Southeast Asia There are many languages in Indian and Southeast Asia that have distinctive writing systems, but they're all descended from the Brahmi script of some 2,300 years ago ...

Received truth with regard to the Brahmi Script is that it originated in the northern part of the landmass that is now known as India sometime in the 3rd Century BCE and that thanks to Emperor Asoka’s ...

The advent of globalisation has precipitated demise of human languages. People find it easier to communicate with those outside their culture through one single language. While languages spoken by ...

Noted historian and archaeologist M R Raghava Varier has confirmed the presence of Brahmi script at the ancient Edakkal caves in a remote part of Wayanad district. KOCHI: Noted historian and ...

His arms are tattooed with an unusual a script with vertical, horizontal and diagonal lines and clusters of dots, the ancient Brahmi language of the Rakhine or Arakanese people from Myanmar’s ...

COIMBATORE: Learning a new language is not everybody’s cup of tea, let alone an old script such as the Tamil-Brahmi. But, for eight-year-old SJ Moshika, reading and writing the ancient form of ...

A Tamil-Brahmi script inscribed on a potsherd, which was found at the Khor Rori area in Oman, has come to light now. The script reads “nantai kiran” and it can be dated to first century CE ...