^The middle "Kushana" form of Brahmi is a later style that emerged as Brahmi scripts were beginning to proliferate. Gupta Brahmi was definitely a stylistic descendant from Kushana, but other Brahmi-derived scripts may have descended from earlier forms.
^Tocharian is probably derived from the middle period "Kushana" form of Brahmi, although artifacts from that time are not plentiful enough to establish a definite succession.
^Pyu and Old Mon are probably the precursors of the Burmese script, and may be derived from either the Pallava or Kadamba script
^May also be derived from Devangari (see bottom left of table)
^The Origin of Hangul from 'Phags-pa is one of limited influence, inspiring at most a few basic letter shapes. Hangul does not function as an Indic abugida.
^Although the basic letter forms of the Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics were derived from handwritten Devanagari letters, this abugida indicates vowel sounds by rotations of the letter form, rather than the use of vowel diacritics as is standard in Indic abugidas.
The current incarnation of {{Indic glyph}} includes exemplar scripts to show the range of styles and geographic distribution of Brahmi-derived scripts, and then shows the whole of the family in drop-downs, loosely grouped by derivation and geography.
Script families and exemplar scripts
Indic script family tree
Indic script family tree
Tree listing Indic script genealogy. Historic/Ancient scripts are in italics, possible exemplar scripts in bold.
Indic scripts
Kharosthi
Tocharian
Brahmi
Kusan?
Gupta (Brahmi variant)
Bhaiksuki
Siddham
Tibetan
Phags-pa
Zanabazar Square
→ Hangul
Limbu
Lepcha
Marchen
Manipuri?
(Proto-Bengali)
Maithili?
Bengali
Tirhuta
Oriya
Newa
Sharada
Takri
Dogra
Landa
Gurmukhi
Khojki
Mahajani
Khudawadi
Multani
Kashmiri?
(Nagari)
Devanagari
Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics
Kaithi
Modi
Gujarati
Nandinagari
Syloti Nagri
Gunjala Gondi
Ranjana
Soyombo
Pallava
Tamil
Grantha
Cham
Ahom
Saurashtra
Khmer
Lao
Thai
Burmese
S'gaw Karen
Kayah Li
Kawi?
Balinese
Javanese
Baybayin
Tagbanwa
Buhid
Hanunoo
Batak
Sundanese
Lontara
Makasar
Rejang
Old Mon
Chakma
Dives Akuru
Thaana
Tai Tham
New Tai Lü
Tai Le
Tai Viet
Malayalam
Kalinga?
Kadamba
Sinhala
Kannada
Pyu
Karnarese
Telugu
Unclassified scripts:
Masaram Gondi, Meetei Mayek
Groupings
Family tree broken up into groups of around a dozen scripts with one or more exemplar scripts in each. The Ashoka Brahmi letter, upon which almost every other Indic character can ultimately be derived, is included in all groups for comparison.