Scripts

Scripts hierarchy

Scripts are arranged in a hierarchy, represented below. Some script identifiers have the form X_other, where X is the identifier of the parent category. They represent the remainder of the parent category.

Script [script]
- Arabic [arabic]
  - Jawi [jawi]
  - Arabic (other) [arabic_other]
- Brāhmī [brāhmī]
  - Northern Brāhmī [brāhmī_northern]
    - Bhaikṣukī [bhaikṣukī]
    - Gauḍī [gauḍī]
    - Nāgarī [nāgarī]
    - Siddhamātr̥kā [siddhamātr̥kā]
    - Northern Brāhmī (other) [brāhmī_northern_other]
  - Southeast Asian Brāhmī [brāhmī_southeast_asian]
    - Balinese [balinese]
    - Batak [batak]
    - Cam [cam]
    - Kawi [kawi]
    - Khmer [khmer]
    - Mon-Burmese [mon-burmese]
    - Old West Javanese [javanese_old_west]
    - Pyu [pyu]
    - Sundanese [sundanese]
    - Southeast Asian Brāhmī (other) [brāhmī_southeast_asian_other]
  - Southern Brāhmī [brāhmī_southern]
    - Grantha [grantha]
    - Kannada [kannada]
    - Malayalam [malayalam]
    - Tamil [tamil]
    - Telugu [telugu]
    - Vaṭṭeḻuttu [vaṭṭeḻuttu]
    - Southern Brāhmī (other) [brāhmī_southern_other]
  - Brāhmī (other) [brāhmī_other]
- Chinese [chinese]
- Kharoṣṭhī [kharoṣṭhī]
- Latin [latin]
- Script (other) [script_other]

Statistics

The following only displays scripts that currently appear in the DHARMA database.

Brāhmī (other) [brāhmī_other] (3 texts)

Repositories: tfa-pallava-epigraphy (2), varia-epigraphy (1).

Editors: Emmanuel Francis (3), Valérie Gillet (1), Samana Gururaja (1).

Brāhmī, Southeast Asian (other) [brāhmī_southeast_asian_other] (5 texts)

Repositories: tfc-nusantara-epigraphy (4), tfa-pallava-epigraphy (1).

Editors: Arlo Griffiths (4), Emmanuel Francis (2).

Brāhmī, Southern (other) [brāhmī_southern_other] (585 texts)

Repositories: siddham (427), tfb-vengicalukya-epigraphy (108), tfa-pallava-epigraphy (25), tfb-eiad-epigraphy (16), tfb-badamicalukya-epigraphy (9).

Editors: Dániel Balogh (544), Csaba Kiss (161), Emmanuel Francis (26), Arlo Griffiths (16), Vincent Tournier (15), Timothy Lubin (1), Csaba Dezsö (1), Andrew Ollett (1).

Cam [cam] (107 texts)

Repositories: tfc-campa-epigraphy (107).

Editors: Arlo Griffiths (106), Salomé Pichon (77), Dániel Balogh (2), Dominic Goodall (1).

Grantha [grantha] (3520 texts)

Repositories: south-indian-inscriptions (2585), tfa-pallava-epigraphy (303), tfa-tamilnadu-epigraphy (231), tfa-sii-epigraphy (159), tfa-tiruvavatuturai-epigraphy (60), tfa-pandya-epigraphy (47), tfa-cirkali-epigraphy (44), tfa-kotumpalur-epigraphy (32), tfa-melappaluvur-kilappaluvur-epigraphy (19), tfa-uttiramerur-epigraphy (16), tfa-tamil-outside-TN-epigraphy (13), tfa-cempiyan-mahadevi-epigraphy (11).

Editors: Emmanuel Francis (2382), Dorotea Operato (999), Renato Dávalos (139), G. Vijayavenugopal (130), Valérie Gillet (57), Margherita Trento (53), Uthaya Veluppillai (44), Nicolas Cane (11), N. Ramaswamy (4), Vigneshwaran Muralidaran (2), S.A.S. Sarma (2), Vincent Tournier (1), Indra Manuel (1), Amandine Wattelier-Bricout (1).

Kannada [kannada] (26 texts)

Repositories: tfb-kalyanacalukya-epigraphy (22), south-indian-inscriptions (2), varia-epigraphy (1), tfa-sii-epigraphy (1).

Editors: Antonella Santoro (22), Florinda De Simini (1), Emmanuel Francis (1), Dorotea Operato (1).

Kawi [kawi] (158 texts)

Repositories: tfc-nusantara-epigraphy (158).

Editors: Arlo Griffiths (158), Hedwi Prihatmoko (51), Eko Bastiawan (37), Wayan Jarrah Sastrawan (9), Tyassanti Kusumo Dewanti (6), Mekhola Gomes (5), Marine Schoettel (3), Titi Surti Nastiti (1), Csaba Dezsö (1).

Khmer [khmer] (987 texts)

Repositories: tfc-khmer-epigraphy (987).

Editors: Kunthea Chhom (785), Chloé Chollet (166), Dominique Soutif (158), Dominic Goodall (80), Gerdi Gerschheimer (59), Arlo Griffiths (44), Salomé Pichon (40), Chhunteng Hun (13), Julia Estève (11), Emmanuel Francis (2), Anjaneya Sarma (1).

Latin [latin] (1257 texts)

Repositories: tfb-satavahana-epigraphy (511), tfb-eiad-epigraphy (166), tfc-nusantara-epigraphy (104), tfb-telugu-epigraphy (101), tfb-maitraka-epigraphy (85), tfb-bengalcharters-epigraphy (62), tfb-daksinakosala-epigraphy (47), tfb-somavamsin-epigraphy (38), tfb-kalyanacalukya-epigraphy (26), BESTOW (26), test (24), south-indian-inscriptions (19), tfb-tunga-epigraphy (10), tfb-nandodbhava-epigraphy (8), tfa-sii-epigraphy (8), tfa-pallava-epigraphy (4), tfc-khmer-epigraphy (3), tfc-campa-epigraphy (3), tfb-nalodbhava-epigraphy (3), tfa-tamilnadu-epigraphy (3), tfa-tamil-outside-TN-epigraphy (2), tfb-vengicalukya-epigraphy (1), tfb-parivrajaka-epigraphy (1), tfb-bhaumakara-epigraphy (1), tfb-arakan-epigraphy (1).

Editors: Vincent Tournier (675), Arlo Griffiths (273), Andrew Ollett (103), Amandine Wattelier-Bricout (102), Jens Thomas (101), Annette Schmiedchen (86), Kelsey Martini (70), Natasja Bosma (47), Ryosuke Furui (41), Wayan Jarrah Sastrawan (38), Marine Schoettel (28), Emmanuel Francis (28), Samana Gururaja (20), Aditia Gunawan (14), Dániel Balogh (12), Michaël Meyer (9), Renato Dávalos (7), Antonella Santoro (6), Tyassanti Kusumo Dewanti (4), Eko Bastiawan (3), Kunthea Chhom (2), G. Vijayavenugopal (1), Salomé Pichon (1), Nina Mirnig (1), Margherita Trento (1), Fu Fan (1), Dorotea Operato (1), Dominic Goodall (1), Darline Canabady Moutien (1), Chloé Chollet (1).

Nāgarī [nāgarī] (7 texts)

Repositories: south-indian-inscriptions (6), tfa-tiruvavatuturai-epigraphy (1).

Editors: Emmanuel Francis (6), Margherita Trento (1).

Siddhamātr̥kā [siddhamātr̥kā] (7 texts)

Repositories: tfb-bengalded-epigraphy (5), south-indian-inscriptions (2).

Editors: Rajat Sanyal (5), Arlo Griffiths (5), Emmanuel Francis (2), Vincent Tournier (1).

Tamil [tamil] (3544 texts)

Repositories: south-indian-inscriptions (2467), tfa-pallava-epigraphy (341), tfa-tamilnadu-epigraphy (302), tfa-sii-epigraphy (160), tfa-tiruvavatuturai-epigraphy (74), tfa-cirkali-epigraphy (55), tfa-kotumpalur-epigraphy (40), tfa-pandya-epigraphy (37), tfa-tamil-outside-TN-epigraphy (20), tfa-melappaluvur-kilappaluvur-epigraphy (20), tfa-uttiramerur-epigraphy (17), tfa-cempiyan-mahadevi-epigraphy (11).

Editors: Emmanuel Francis (2390), Dorotea Operato (1002), G. Vijayavenugopal (167), Renato Dávalos (146), Margherita Trento (68), Valérie Gillet (58), Uthaya Veluppillai (55), Nicolas Cane (11), N. Ramaswamy (4), Vigneshwaran Muralidaran (3), S.A.S. Sarma (3), Darline Canabady Moutien (2), Indra Manuel (1).

Telugu [telugu] (20 texts)

Repositories: south-indian-inscriptions (12), tfa-pallava-epigraphy (4), tfa-tiruvavatuturai-epigraphy (3), tfa-tamilnadu-epigraphy (1).

Editors: Emmanuel Francis (17), Margherita Trento (3), G. Vijayavenugopal (1).

Vaṭṭeḻuttu [vaṭṭeḻuttu] (178 texts)

Repositories: south-indian-inscriptions (109), tfa-pallava-epigraphy (60), tfa-pandya-epigraphy (9).

Editors: Emmanuel Francis (178), Valérie Gillet (2), Amandine Wattelier-Bricout (1).