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  2. Old Italic scripts - Wikipedia

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    The Old Italic scripts are a family of ancient writing systems used in the Italian Peninsula between about 700 and 100 BC, for various languages spoken in that time and place. The most notable member is the Etruscan alphabet, which was the immediate ancestor of the Latin alphabet used by more than 100 languages today, including English.

  3. Kaithi - Wikipedia

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    Kaithi was the most widely used script of North India west of Bengal. In 1854, 77,368 school primers were in Kaithi script, as compared to 25,151 in Devanagari and 24,302 in Mahajani. [4] Among the three scripts widely used in the ' Hindi Belt ', Kaithi was widely perceived to be neutral, as it was used by both Hindus and Muslims alike ...

  4. Old Gallo-Italic language - Wikipedia

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    Around the 13th century, many authors would ditch Old Occitan, Old French, and Latin for their native language. [4] Several texts were made in Old Gallo-Italic, such as Bonvesin da la Riva's works, Sermon divin, the autobiography of Uguçon da Laodho, Splanamento, the works of Guido Faba and Giacomin da Verona.

  5. Lipi (script) - Wikipedia

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    Lipi means 'writing, letters, alphabet', and contextually refers to scripts, the art or manner of writing, or in modified form such as lipī to painting, decorating or anointing a surface to express something. [2][3] The term lipi appears in multiple texts of Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism, some of which have been dated to the 1st millennium ...

  6. Italic type - Wikipedia

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    Italic is only used for the lower case and not for capitals. [1] In typography, italic type is a cursive font based on a stylised form of calligraphic handwriting. [2][3][4] Along with blackletter and roman type, it served as one of the major typefaces in the history of Western typography. Owing to the influence from calligraphy, italics ...

  7. Kharosthi - Wikipedia

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    Routes of ancient scripts of the subcontinent traveling to other parts of Asia (Kharosthi shown in blue) The name Kharosthi may derive from the Hebrew kharosheth, a Semitic word for writing, [4] or from Old Iranian *xšaθra-pištra, which means "royal writing". [5] The script was earlier also known as Indo-Bactrian script, Kabul script and ...

  8. Brahmic scripts - Wikipedia

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    Brahmic scripts spread in a peaceful manner, Indianization, or the spread of Indian learning. The scripts spread naturally to Southeast Asia, at ports on trading routes. [2] At these trading posts, ancient inscriptions have been found in Sanskrit, using scripts that originated in India.

  9. Hinglish - Wikipedia

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    Hinglish. Hinglish is the macaronic hybrid use of English and the Hindustani language. [1][2][3][4][5] Its name is a portmanteau of the words Hindi and English. [6] In the context of spoken language, it involves code-switching or translanguaging between these languages whereby they are freely interchanged within a sentence or between sentences.