Gaudi script

Gaudi script
Script type
Period
c. 900-1300 CE[1]
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Related scripts
Parent systems
Child systems
Bengali-Assamese script, Tirhuta, Odia script
Sister systems
Kamarupi script, Nagari
[a] The Semitic origin of the Brahmic scripts is not universally agreed upon.
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The Gaudi script (Gāuṛi lipi), also known as the Proto-Bengali script[1][2] and sometimes the Proto-Oriya script,[3] is an abugida in the Brahmic family of scripts. By the fourteenth century, Gaudi script had begun to differentiate and gradually developed into the Bengali-Assamese (Eastern Nagari), Odia,[a] and Maithili script.[1][4]

Silver coin with Gaudi script, Harikela Kingdom, circa 9th–13th century
  1. ^ a b c d Salomon, Richard (1998). Indian Epigraphy. Oxford University Press. p. 41. ISBN 978-0-19-535666-3.
  2. ^ Masica, Colin (1993). The Indo-Aryan languages. Cambridge University Press. p. 143. ISBN 9780521299442. Proto-Bengali gave birth to the Maithili, Modern Bengali (settled in the seventeenth century: Assamese is a nineteenth-century variant), and Oriya scripts, as well as the Manipuri and Newari scripts for two Tibeto Burman languages.
  3. ^ Tripāṭhī, Kunjabihari (1962). The Evolution of Oriya Language and Script. Utkal University. p. 32. Retrieved 21 March 2021. Proto-Oriya (The Proto-Bengali script script of Bühler)
  4. ^ Cardona, George; Jain, Dhanesh (2003). The Indo-Aryan Languages. Routledge language family series. London: Routledge. p. 109. ISBN 0-7007-1130-9. In the northeast, meanwhile separately evolved into a form referred to as 'proto-Bengali' or Gaudī, which prevailed until the fourteenth century, by which time it had begun to be differentiated into the modern eastern scripts, Bangla-Asamiya, Maithilī and Oriya.


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