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Comparison of A in different scripts
Aramaic
-
Kharoṣṭhī
𐨀
Ashoka Brahmi
A
Kushana Brahmi[a]
𑀅
Tocharian[b]
A
Gupta Brahmi
A
Pallava
-
Kadamba
-
Bhaiksuki
-
Siddhaṃ
A
Grantha
𑌅
Cham
Sinhala
Pyu /
Old Mon[c]
-
Tibetan
Newa
-
Ahom
-
Malayalam
Telugu
Burmese
Lepcha
Ranjana
-
Saurashtra
Dives Akuru
-
Kannada
Kayah Li
Limbu
ᤀᤠ
Soyombo[d]
-
Khmer
Tamil
Chakma
𑄃𑄧
Tai Tham
Meitei Mayek
Gaudi
-
Thai
Lao
Tai Le
Marchen
-
Tirhuta
𑒁
New Tai Lue
Tai Viet
ꪮ / ꪯ
Aksara Kawi
-
'Phags-pa
Odia
Sharada
𑆃
Rejang
Batak
-
Buginese
Zanabazar Square
-
Bengali-Assamese
A
Takri
𑚀
Javanese
Balinese
Makasar
-
Hangul[e]
-
Northern Nagari
-
Dogri
-
Laṇḍā
-
Sundanese
Baybayin
Modi
𑘀
Gujarati
Khojki
𑈀
Khudabadi
𑊰
Mahajani
𑅐
Tagbanwa
Devanagari
a
Nandinagari
-
Kaithi
𑂃
Gurmukhi
Multani
-
Buhid
Canadian Syllabics[f]
-
Soyombo[g]
-
Sylheti Nagari
Gunjala Gondi
-
Masaram Gondi[h]
-
Hanuno'o
Notes
  1. ^ The middle "Kushana" form of Brahmi is a later style that emerged as Brahmi scripts were beginning to proliferate. Gupta Brahmi was definitely a stylistic descendant from Kushana, but other Brahmi-derived scripts may have descended from earlier forms.
  2. ^ Tocharian is probably derived from the middle period "Kushana" form of Brahmi, although artifacts from that time are not plentiful enough to establish a definite succession.
  3. ^ Pyu and Old Mon are probably the precursors of the Burmese script, and may be derived from either the Pallava or Kadamba script
  4. ^ May also be derived from Devangari (see bottom left of table)
  5. ^ The Origin of Hangul from 'Phags-pa is one of limited influence, inspiring at most a few basic letter shapes. Hangul does not function as an Indic abugida.
  6. ^ Although the basic letter forms of the Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics were derived from handwritten Devanagari letters, this abugida indicates vowel sounds by rotations of the letter form, rather than the use of vowel diacritics as is standard in Indic abugidas.
  7. ^ May also be derived from Ranjana (see above)
  8. ^ Masaram Gondi acts as an Indic abugida, but its letterforms were not derived from any single precursor script.


A is a vowel of Indic abugidas. In modern Indic scripts, A is derived from the early "Ashoka" Brahmi letter ng after having gone through the Gupta letter . Bare consonants without a modifying vowel sign have the "A" vowel inherently, and thus there is no modifier sign for "A" in Indic scripts.

Āryabhaṭa numeration

Aryabhata used Devanagari letters for numbers, very similar to the Greek numerals, even after the invention of Indian numerals. The letter अ was not used in the Aryabhata number system, and consonants with the inherent "a" vowel retained their base value.[1]


  1. ^ Ifrah, Georges (2000). The Universal History of Numbers. From Prehistory to the Invention of the Computer. New York: John Wiley & Sons. pp. 447–450. ISBN 0-471-39340-1.