Indic Alphabets: A Non-Greek Vowel Solution For Asia

After the Roman and Arabic alphabets, the Indic is the most extensively used in the world. it has spread to the countries around India and to southeast Asia.

The minor attention to vowels, inherited from the original Semitic alphabet, makes the Indic alphabets different from those of Europe.

Some scholars think that India's alphabets are derived from the ancient Indus Valley script--only partially deciphered. Others believe that India's parent alphabet, the Brahmi, was developed from the Early Aramaic as a result of sea trade between Babylon and India (800 to 600 B.C.)

Brahmi has in turn influenced alphabets throughout Southeast Asia, Mongolia, and possibly even Korea and Ethiopia.