Script family groups writing systems by their shared line of descent. Wikipedia describes the Latin script as "based on the letters of the classical Latin alphabet, derived from a form of the Greek alphabet," placing it in the same broad family as Greek, Cyrillic and Coptic. This dimension lets a visitor compare scripts that trace back to the same ancestral writing system.
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Era Of Emergence Script Family (Lineage)
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1. Wikipedia: Brahmi Script
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The writing system only went through relatively minor evolutionary changes from the Mauryan period (3rd century BCE) down to the early Gupta period (4th century CE), and it is thought that as late as the 4th century CE, a literate person could still read and understand Mauryan inscriptions.
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