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a substantial independent polity prior to Pagan's expansion. Possibly in this period, the delta sedimentation--which now extends the coastline by 3 mi in a century--remained insufficient, and the sea still reached too far inland, to support a population even as large as the modest population of the late precolonial era. The earliest evidence of Burmese script is dated to 1035, and possibly as early as 984, both of which are earlier than the earliest evidence of the Burma Mon script (1093). Research from the 2000s argues that the Pyu script

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