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| Type | Abugida |
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| Spoken languages | Sanskrit |
| Time period | c. 400–? |
| Parent systems | Proto-Canaanite alphabet [a] → Phoenician alphabet [a] → Aramaic alphabet [a] → Brāhmī → Gupta |
| Child systems | Nāgarī Śāradā Siddhaṃ |
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[a] The Semitic origin of the Brahmic scripts is not universally agreed upon.
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The Gupta script (or Gupta Brahmi) was used for writing Sanskrit and is associated with the Gupta Empire of India which was a period of material prosperity and great religious and scientific developments. The Gupta script was descended from Brahmi and gave rise to the Siddham script.
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