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'''Anga Lipi''' (অঙ্গ লিপি) is a historical [[writing system]] or script of the [[Anga area]] of India.

==Etymology and history==
''[[Anga]]'' refers to a region in what is now [[Bihar]] and [[Jharkhand]] states of [[India]], and ''Lipi'' means ''script''.<ref>{{Cite book | last1 = Olivelle | first1 = Patrick | title =Between the empires: society in India 300 BCE to 400 CE | date = 2006 | publisher = [[Oxford University Press]] | location = [[Oxford University]] | isbn = 0-19-530532-9 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=efaOR_-YsIcC}}</ref>
The Anga Script is mentioned in an ancient Sanskrit language Buddhist book the [[Lalitavistara Sūtra|"Lalitvistar"]] (ललितविस्तर), which names Anga Lipi relatively early in the list of 64 scripts known to the Buddha. The script was specific to the [[Anga]] region, or [[Anga Mahajanapada]], and was among those known to Buddha.<ref>{{Cite book | last1 = Wilson | first1 =John | title =Indian Caste | date = 2005 | publisher = Adamant Media Corporation | isbn = 1-4021-7996-0 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Q2vPtVVNPcIC&q=anga+lipi&pg=PA280}}</ref> The script was mentioned as the fourth most important script of Ancient India in one version. [[Arthur Coke Burnell]] thought that some of the sixty-four scripts mentioned in "Lalitvistar" were mythical, but he considered some, including Dravid, Anga and Banga, to be real, though not appearing as distinct alphabets until the 9th or 10th century CE.<ref>{{Cite book | last1 =Coke Burnell | first1 =Arthur | title =Elements of South-Indian Palaeography | date = 1878| publisher = Trübner & Co | location = London | page = 52 |url= https://archive.org/stream/elementssouthin05burngoog#page/n70/mode/2up}}</ref> (Burnell regarded this passage as a late [[Interpolation (manuscripts)|interpolation]].)

==Characteristics and comparison==
Anga Lipi and [[Bengali alphabet|Bengali script]] might have been derived from Brahmic, with some regional characteristics.<ref>{{Cite book | last1 = Sircar | first1 =D.C. | title =Journal of ancient Indian history | date = 1986 | publisher = [[University of Calcutta]],Dept. of Ancient Indian History and Culture |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LfxtAAAAMAAJ&q=anga+lipi}}</ref> This supports the belief that the development of local characteristics in alphabets was continuing from earlier times.<ref>{{Cite book | last1 = K.L.M. | first1 = Firma | title =The people and culture of Bengal, a study in origins | date = 2002 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=viRuAAAAMAAJ&q=anga+lipi}}</ref>

It reflects the early development of local variants of Indian alphabets.<ref>{{Cite book | last1 = K.L.M. | first1 = Firma | title =The people and culture of Bengal, a study in origins | year = 2002 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=viRuAAAAMAAJ&q=anga+lipi}}</ref>

==See also==
*[[Brahmic family of scripts]]
*[[Brāhmī script]]
*[[Bengali-Assamese script]]
*[[Kaithi]]
*[[Abugida]]
*[[List of writing systems]]
*[[List of languages by first written accounts]]
*[[Angika]]
*[[Middle Indo-Aryan languages]]

==References==
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==External links==
* [http://www.angika.com angika.com]

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[[Category:History of writing]]
[[Category:Linguistic history of India]]
[[Category:Brahmic scripts]]

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