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The Brahmic scripts are a group of writing systems that started in South Asia. It belongs to the Abugida script family. They are used all over the subcontinent and parts of Southeast Asia. These scripts come from the Brahmi script, which began in the Indus Valley region in present-day Pakistan.[1][2][3] Many languages in South and Southeast Asia use these scripts, and they belong to different language families.[4]