Script type sorts writing systems by how their symbols encode language, such as an alphabet, a syllabary or a logography. Wikipedia notes that "alphabets use graphemes called letters that generally correspond to spoken phonemes," a different mechanism from a syllabary's syllable signs or a logography's whole-word symbols. This dimension groups scripts that encode language the same structural way.
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Era Of Emergence Script Type
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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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