Indic alphabets
The Indic alphabets are the scripts used by those people of the Indian subcontinent (with the exception of Pakistan which now uses the Arabic script). The Devanagari script, which is predominant in the Northern regions of India, is used in Hindi, Punjabi, Nepali, Bengali, etc. This Indic script had also been exported to South East Asia by Indian traders, as is evident in Thai, Indonesian, and the like. Many of these Asian languages are now in the Latin script however. The Indic script is descended from Sanskrit, the ancient language of India.
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