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1. Abugida

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   The lineage of abugidas is conventionally traced back to the ancient Indic Brahmi script, which emerged in South Asia around the 3rd century BCE. Brahmi's innovation was the systematic representation of consonant-vowel units. It is theorized that the inherent vowel in these early systems was $\text{a}$ because, in many ancient Indo-Aryan languages, this was the most common, least marked phoneme, thus requiring the least graphic expenditure [3].
   While the South Asian tradition is the most prolific, the concept of an abugida has arisen independently in several disparate linguistic contexts. Fo…