Tirhuta script
| Tirhuta ๐๐ฑ๐ฉ๐ฏ๐ณ๐๐ฐโ ๐ง๐ฑ๐๐ฑ๐ช๐ฐ๐๐๐ญ๐ฉ (mithilฤkแนฃar) | |
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 Tirhuta Varnamala (Alphabet Chart) divided into 14 Vowels (๐ฎ๐๐ซ๐ฉ ๐ซ๐ฉ๐๐), 33 Basic consonants (๐ซ๐๐จ๐๐๐๐ข ๐ซ๐ฉ๐๐), 3 conjunct consonants, 17 vowel diacritics (๐ฎ๐๐ซ๐ฉ ๐๐ฑ๐ฏ๐๐ข), 4 Vedic diacritics, 1 nuqta, 1 virama, 3 punctuation marks and an auspicious sign unique to Tirhuta written at the beginning. | |
| Script type | |
Period | c. 14th centuryโpresent day |
| Direction | Left-to-right  |
| Region | Mithila |
| Language | Maithili |
| Languages | Maithili, Sanskrit |
| Related scripts | |
Parent systems | |
Sister systems | BengaliโAssamese, Assamese, Odia |
| ISO 15924 | |
| ISO 15924 | Tirh (326), โTirhuta |
| Unicode | |
Unicode alias | Tirhuta |
| U+11480โU+114DF Final Accepted Script Proposal | |
Also known as Vaidehi Lipi | |
The Tirhuta script (Maithili: ๐๐ฑ๐ฉ๐ฏ๐ณ๐๐ฐโ, romanized: tirahutฤ), also known as Mithilakshar (Maithili: ๐ง๐ฑ๐๐ฑ๐ช๐ฐ๐๐๐ญ๐ฉ, romanized: mithilฤkแนฃar) or Maithili script, or Vaidehi script has historically been used for writing Maithili, an Indo-Aryan language spoken by almost 35 million people of Mithila region. The scripts of Maithili and Bengali are very much similar. Maithili, Bengali, Assamese, Newari, and Odia are a part of the same family of scripts.