George Cardona
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LOCATION: Urbana, IL, United States
Professor of linguistics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. Author of Studies in Indian Grammarians and others. Coeditor of Indo-European and Indo-Europeans.
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Devanāgarī, script used to write the Sanskrit, Prākrit, Hindi, Marathi, and Nepali languages, developed from the North Indian monumental script known as Gupta and ultimately from the Brāhmī alphabet, from which all modern Indian writing systems are derived. In use from the 7th century ce and…
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