and the Tibetan script.

Origins and classification

The Gupta script was descended from the Ashokan Brahmi script, and is a crucial link between Brahmi and most other Brahmic scripts, a family of alphasyllabaries or abugidas. This means that while only consonantal phonemes have distinct symbols, vowels are marked by diacritics, with being the implied pronunciation when the diacritic

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