Gupta script

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Gupta

Type

Abugida

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

[a] The Semitic origin of the Brahmic scripts is not universally agreed upon.

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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