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Ga (Indic)
Ga is the third consonant of Indic abugidas. In modern Brahmic scripts, Indic scripts, ga is derived from the early "Ashoka" Brahmi letter , which is Brahmi script#Semitic model hypothesis, probably derived from the Aramaic letter (gimel, /g/) after having gone through the Gupta script, Gupta letter . Āryabhaṭa numeration Aryabhata used Devanagari letters for numbers, very similar to the Greek numerals, even after the invention of Indian numerals. The values of the different forms of ग are: *ग = 3 (३) *ग = 300 (३००) *गु = 30,000 (३० ०००) *गृ = 3,000,000 (३० ०० ०००) *गॣ = 3 (३ × १०८) *गे = 3 (३ × १०१०) *गै = 3 (३ × १०१२) *गो = 3 (३ × १०१४) *गौ = 3 (३ × १०१६) Historic Ga There are three different general early historic scripts - Brahmi and its variants, Kharoshthi, and Tocharian, the so-called ''slanting Brahmi''. Ga as found in standard Brahmi, wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abugida
An abugida (; from Geʽez: , )sometimes also called alphasyllabary, neosyllabary, or pseudo-alphabetis a segmental Writing systems#Segmental writing system, writing system in which consonant–vowel sequences are written as units; each unit is based on a consonant letter, and vowel notation is secondary, similar to a diacritical mark. This contrasts with a full alphabet, in which vowels have status equal to consonants, and with an abjad, in which vowel marking is absent, Abjad#Impure abjads, partial, or optional – in less formal contexts, all three types of the script may be termed "alphabets". The terms also contrast them with a syllabary, in which a single symbol denotes the combination of one consonant and one vowel. Related concepts were introduced independently in 1948 by James Germain Février (using the term ) and David Diringer (using the term ''semisyllabary''), then in 1959 by Fred Householder (introducing the term ''pseudo-alphabet''). The Ethiopian Semitic langu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
