The various Indic scripts are generally related to each other through adaptation and borrowing, and as such the glyphs for cognate letters, including Ḍa, Ḷa and L, are related as well. Your default Brahmi font has 𑀟/𑀴/𑁵/𑀮. If the second and fourth are similar or second and third characters are the same, the font is now wrong, and you should consult the Brahmi code chart for BRAHMI LETTER LLA and BRAHMI LETTER OLD TAMIL LLA. (Before disunification, fonts were free to choose which to use for BRAHMI LETTER LLA.)
| Comparison of Ḍa/Ḷa/La in different scripts
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Notes
- ^ The middle "Kushana" form of Brahmi is a later style that emerged as Brahmi scripts were beginning to proliferate. Gupta Brahmi was definitely a stylistic descendant from Kushana, but other Brahmi-derived scripts may have descended from earlier forms.
- ^ Tocharian is probably derived from the middle period "Kushana" form of Brahmi, although artifacts from that time are not plentiful enough to establish a definite succession.
- ^ Pyu and Old Mon are probably the precursors of the Burmese script, and may be derived from either the Pallava or Kadamba script
- ^ May also be derived from Devangari (see bottom left of table)
- ^ The Origin of Hangul from 'Phags-pa is one of limited influence, inspiring at most a few basic letter shapes. Hangul does not function as an Indic abugida.
- ^ Although the basic letter forms of the Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics were derived from handwritten Devanagari letters, this abugida indicates vowel sounds by rotations of the letter form, rather than the use of vowel diacritics as is standard in Indic abugidas.
- ^ May also be derived from Ranjana (see above)
- ^ Masarm Gondi acts as an Indic abugida, but its letterforms were not derived from any single precursor script.
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