Tirhuta
Tirhuta
Tirhuta
Tirhuta
Tirhuta or Mithilakshar is the script used for Sanskrit &
Maithili language originating in the Mithila region of Bihar, India
Tirhuta, Mithilakshar
and the eastern Terai region of Nepal. The oldest reference to
Tirhuta script is Sahodara Temple of Narkatiyaganj, Bihar, dated
950 CE [1] The script has a rich history spanning a thousand years,
believed to be originated in the 10th century CE, but years of Type Abugida
neglect by Nepal and the Bihar government have taken their toll Languages Maithili, Sanskrit
on the use of Tirhuta. It is similar to Assamese script and Bengali Time c. 10th–current
script. Most speakers of Maithili have switched to using the period
Devanagari script, which is also used to write neighboring Central Sister Bengali, Assamese, Tibetan
Indic languages such as Nepali and Hindi. As a result, the number systems
of people with a working knowledge of Tirhuta has dropped Direction Left-to-right
considerably in recent years. ISO 15924 Tirh, 326
Unicode Tirhuta
alias
Contents Unicode U+11480–U+114DF (https://w
range ww.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U1
History and current status
1480.pdf)
Signs of the script
Final Accepted Script Proposal
Consonant signs
Vowels (https://www.unicode.org/L2/L
Other signs 2011/11175r-tirhuta.pdf)
Numerals
Sample text
Image gallery
Unicode
References
The 2003 inclusion of Maithili in the VIIIth Schedule of the Indian Constitution, having accorded official recognition
to it as a language independent of Hindi, there is a possibility that this might lead to efforts to re-implement Tirhuta on
a wider basis, in accord with similar trends in India reinforcing separate identities. However, currently, only Maithili in
the Devanagari script is officially recognized.
Consonant signs
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Consonants
Sign Transcription
Image Text IAST IPA
ka /ka/
kha /kʰа/
ga /gа/
gha /gʱа/
ṅa /ŋа/
ca ͡
/tʃa/
cha ͡
/tʃʰa/
ja ͡
/dʒa/
jha ͡
/dʒʱa/
ña /ɲa/
ṭa /ʈa/
ṭha /ʈʰa/
ḍa /ɖa/
ḍha /ɖʱa/
ṇa /ɳa/
ta /ta/
̪
tha /tʰa/
̪
da /da
̪ /
dha /dʱ̪ a/
na /na/
pa /pa/
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pha /pʰa/
ba /ba/
bha /bʱa/
ma /ma/
ya /ja/
ra /ra/
la /la/
va /ʋa/
śa /ʃa/
ṣa /ʂa/
sa /sa/
ha /ɦa/
Vowels
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Vowels
Independent Dependent Transcription
Image Text Image Text IAST IPA
a /а/
ā /а:/
і /і/
ī /і:/
u /u/
ū /u:/
ṛ /r ̩/
ṝ /r ̩ː/
ḷ /l ̩/
ḹ /l ̩ː/
ē /е:/
e /е/
аі /аі/
ō /о:/
о /о/
аu /аu/
Other signs
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marks the sound [h], which is an allophone of [r] and [s] in pausa (at the end of an
visarga
utterance)
Numerals
Tirhuta script uses its own signs for the positional decimal numeral system.
Digits
Image
Text
Digit 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
Sample text
Image gallery
The first two images shown below are samples illustrating the history of Tirhuta. The first is the sacred sign of
Ganesha, called āñjī, used for millennia by students before beginning Tirhuta studies. Displayed further below are
images of tables comparing the Tirhuta and Devanagari scripts.
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Unicode
Tirhuta script was added to the Unicode Standard in June 2014 with the release of version 7.0.
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Tirhuta[1][2]
Official Unicode Consortium code chart (https://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U11480.pdf) (PDF)
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C D E F
U+1148x
U+1149x
U+114Ax
U+114Bx
U+114Cx
U+114Dx
Notes
References
1. Pandey, Anshuman (5 May 2011). "N4035: Proposal to Encode the Tirhuta Script in ISO/IEC 10646" (https://www.
unicode.org/L2/L2011/11175r-tirhuta.pdf) (PDF). Working Group Document, ISO/IEC JTC1/SC2/WG2. Archived (ht
tps://web.archive.org/web/20161213054204/http://www.unicode.org/L2/L2011/11175r-tirhuta.pdf) (PDF) from the
original on 13 December 2016.
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