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abugida and derived
Tāna has characteristics of both an abugida ( diacritic, vowel-killer strokes ) and a true alphabet ( all vowels are written ), with consonants derived from indigenous and Arabic numerals, and vowels derived from the vowel diacritics of the Arabic abjad.
Unlike most Indic scripts, which are derived from Brahmi, Ol Chiki is a true alphabet, not an abugida, with vowels given equal representation with consonants.
The Limbu script is an abugida derived from the Tibetan script.

abugida and from
The South Arabian alphabet, a sister script to the Phoenician alphabet, is the script from which the Ge ' ez alphabet ( an abugida ) is descended.
An abugida ( from Ge ‘ ez አቡጊዳ ’ äbugida ), also called an alphasyllabary, is a segmental writing system in which consonant – vowel sequences are written as a unit: each unit is based on a consonant letter, and vowel notation is secondary.
The writing system of the Muslim Filipinos in the different independent sultanates of Mindanao during the Spanish colonization shifted from abugida script to Arabic alphabet while the writing system of most of the Catholicized Chinese Filipinos shifted from Written Chinese to Abecedario alphabet.
Indeed, Varṇamālā not only denotes the set of phonemes of Sanskrit and languages evolved from it, but denotes the glyphs in the abugida scripts for such languages.
In India, Rajasthani is written in the Devanagari script, an abugida which is written from left to right.
Indeed, Varṇamālā not only denotes the set of phonemes of Sanskrit and languages evolved from it, but denotes the glyphs in the abugida scripts for such languages.

abugida and script
On the other hand, the Phagspa script of the Mongol Empire was based closely on the Tibetan abugida, but all vowel marks were written after the preceding consonant rather than as diacritic marks.
Conversely, the vowel marks of the Tigrinya abugida and the Amharic abugida ( ironically, the original source of the term " abugida ") have been so completely assimilated into their consonants that the modifications are no longer systematic and have to be learned as a syllabary rather than as a segmental script.
In the Pollard script, an abugida, vowels are indicated by diacritics, but the placement of the diacritic relative to the consonant is modified to indicate the tone.
The largest segmental script is probably an abugida, Devanagari.
Evans used features of Devanagari script and Pitman shorthand to create his initial abugida.
Such vowels can be taken as intrinsic to the consonant sign, giving the Old Turkic alphabet an aspect of an abugida script.
The Soyombo script is an abugida created by the Mongolian monk and scholar Bogdo Zanabazar in the late 17th century, that can also be used to write Tibetan and Sanskrit.
# It is an abugida script, in which the implicit vowel is a short in a syllable without final consonant and a short in a syllable with final consonant.
The Gujarati script ( ગ ુ જર ા ત ી લ િ પ િ Gujǎrātī Lipi ), which like all Nāgarī writing systems is strictly speaking an abugida rather than an alphabet, is used to write the Gujarati and Kutchi languages.
The inherent vowel in the Devanagari script, an abugida used to write Hindi, Marathi, Nepali, and Sanskrit is a schwa, written अ in isolation or to begin a word.
Lao, like many languages in Laos, is written in the Lao script, which is an abugida script.
* Sharada script, abugida writing system
The Burmese script (; ) is an abugida in the Brahmic family used for writing Burmese.
The Soyombo script ( Mongolian, soyombo bichig ) is an abugida developed by the Mongolian monk and scholar Bogdo Zanabazar in 1686 to write Mongolian.
The Ahom script is an abugida that was used to write the Ahom language, an extinct Tai language spoken by the Ahom people who ruled eastern part of Brahmaputra valley — about one-third of the length of Brahmaputra valley — in the Indian state of Assam between the 13th and the 18th centuries.
The Batak script, called locally surat Batak, is an abugida used to write the Austronesian Batak languages spoken by several million people on the Indonesian island of Sumatra.
Traditionally considered an abugida script, where certain ' implied ' vowels are unwritten, recent spelling reforms make this definition somewhat problematic, as all vowel sounds today are marked with diacritics when written according the Lao PDR's propagated and promoted spelling standard.
The Javanese script is an abugida.

abugida and Brahmi
Aramaic spread across Asia, reaching as far as India and becoming Brahmi, the ancestral abugida to most modern Indian and Southeast Asian scripts.
Therefore the abugida is called " Brahmi letters " and the numerals are called " Saundari letters ".

abugida and was
The term abugida was suggested by Peter T. Daniels in his 1990 typology of writing systems.
The Balinese alphabet ( Balinese: Aksara Bali ) is an abugida that was used to write the Balinese language, an Austronesian language spoken by about three million people on the Indonesian island of Bali.
He was co-editor ( with William Bright ) of the book The World's Writing Systems ( 1996 ), and he introduced the terms abjad ( an " alphabet " with no vowel letters ) and abugida ( a system partly alphabetic, partly syllabic ) as modern linguistic terms for categories of scripts.
Meroitic was a type of alphabet called an abugida: The vowel / a / was not normally written ; rather it was assumed whenever a consonant was written alone.
If Rowan is right and this was pronounced, then Meroitic would have been a fairly typical abugida.
In his time, Vattezhuttu, the abugida writing system originally used to write Tamil, was generally used to write Malayalam.
Ardhanagari ( also: Bhatachhari ), an abugida, was a mixture of Nagari, used in Malwa, particularly Ujjain, and Siddha Matrika or the Siddham script, a variant of the Sharada script used in Kashmir.

abugida and by
The Canadian Aboriginal syllabics are also an abugida rather than a syllabary as their name would imply, since each glyph stands for a consonant which is modified by rotation to represent the following vowel.
An inscription of Swampy Cree language | Swampy Cree using Canadian Aboriginal syllabics, an abugida developed by Christian missionaries for Aboriginal Canadian languages
Inuktitut syllabics ( Inuktitut: ᑎᑎᕋᐅᓯᖅ ᓄᑖᖅ or ᖃᓂᐅᔮᖅᐸᐃᑦ ) is a writing system ( specifically an abugida ) used by the Inuit in Nunavut and in Nunavik, Quebec.
* Soyombo script, an abugida developed by Zanabazar in 1686 to write Mongolian
It has long been puzzling to epigraphers why the syllabic principles that underlie the script, where every consonant is assumed to be followed by a vowel a, should have special letters for consonants followed by e. Such a mixed abugida – syllabary is not found among the abugidas of India, nor in Ethiopic.
The Cham alphabet is an abugida used to write Cham, an Austronesian language spoken by some 230, 000 Cham people in Vietnam and Cambodia.
As an abugida, Cham writes individual consonants supplemented by obligatory vowel diacritics tacked onto the consonant.

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