Brahmi Scripts Orthographic Units and Reading Acquisition

摘要: The different scripts used to represent the Indo-Aryan, Dardic, Dravidian, Austro-Asiatic, and Tibeto-Burman languages in India adjoining Indo-Chinese region are based on a writing system known as Brahmi which evolved Ancient (Gelb, 1952; Hale, 1982; Shapiro Schiffman, 1983; Ruhlen, 1987;Comrie, 1987). linguistic adaptability of genetically unrelated is an interestingly unusual case evolutionary history writing. It seems that principle underlying such it can facilitate reading acquisition, at least, initially. This paper indicates how Hindu scholars ancient formulated orthographic design relates current phonological notions moraic extrametrical units; also suggests orthography be relevant acquisition presents some observations Gujarati children learn use it.