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Mithilakshar
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| Tirhuta | ||
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| Type: | Abugida | |
| Languages: | Maithili | |
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| Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. See IPA chart for English for an English-based pronunciation key. | ||
Mithilakshar (Dev. मिथिलाक्षर; also known as तिरहुता Tirhutā ) is the traditional script of the Maithili language, which is spoken in the Indian state of Bihar and eastern Nepal. The language has a rich history spanning thousands of years, but years of official neglect by the Bihar government and migration have taken their toll on the use of the Mithilakshar script. Most speakers of the language have switched to using the Devanagari script which is used for neighboring languages such as Hindi. As a result, the number of people with knowledge of Mithilakshar has dropped considerably in recent years.
The first two images shown below are two samples illustrating the history of Mithilakshar. The first is the sacred sign of Ganesha, called āñjī, used for millennia by students before beginning Mithilakshar studies. Displayed further below are images of tables comparing the Mithilakshar and Devanagari scripts.
An effort is underway to preserve the Maithili script and to develop it for use in digital media by encoding the script in the Unicode standard, for which a proposal[1] to encode the script in the Unicode Roadmap has been submitted as the first step.
- ^ Pandey, Anshuman. 2006. Request to Allocate the Maithili Script in the Unicode Roadmap
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