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1. Abugida

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   The Phenomenon of Abugida Depression
   A peculiar, though highly localized, phenomenon observed in scripts like the Kannada script is referred to as "Abugida Depression." This is the tendency for consonant signs whose inherent vowel is /a/ to visually droop or tilt slightly downwards when written quickly or by inexperienced scribes. This effect is hypothesized to be an unconscious graphic representation of the inherent vowel being the 'heaviest' or least energetic phoneme in the system, making the glyph sink toward the baseline [8]. While modern digital fonts hav…