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Brahmic scripts are a family of writing systems used across South and Southeast Asia that represent consonants and vowels in a connected way, rather than as completely separate letters. They matter because they're the foundation for writing dozens of major languages in the region, including Hindi, Bengali, Tamil, and Thai, making them one of the world's most widely used writing systems.
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Brāhmī written in the Brahmi script, the shared ancestor of the Brahmic family of writing systems
The Brahmic scripts, also known as Indic scripts, are a family of abugida writing systems. They are descended from the Brahmi script of ancient India and are used by various languages in several language families in South, East, Central and Southeast Asia: Indo-Aryan, Dravidian, Tibeto-Burman, Turkic, Mongolic, Austroasiatic, Austronesian, and Tai. They were also the source of the dictionary order (gojūon) of Japanese kana.