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Uncommon card · History
Brahmic scripts, an Uncommon card
The Brahmic scripts, also known as Indic scripts, are a family of abugida writing systems.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- History
- ATK
- 89
- DEF
- 79
- Power
- 168
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 100,000
Ranked #1,573 of the 3,000 cards of the base set by power (ATK + DEF).
Brahmic scripts quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Brahmic scripts card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
They were also the source of the ______ order of Japanese kana.
Answer
dictionary. They were also the source of the dictionary order of Japanese kana. From the Brahmic scripts article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Brahmic scripts. Brahmic scripts 89 · War elephant 84 · Atlantic salmon 81 · Meteor shower 78 ATK in WikiCards.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Bermuda Triangle. Bermuda Triangle 1,300,000 · War elephant 160,000 · Brahmic scripts 100,000 · Coal-fired power station 49,000 Wikipedia reads over a year.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- 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 of Japanese kana.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Brahmic scripts article was read about 100,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 89 and blocks with 79: each hit it takes is cut by 32 %.
How to get Brahmic scripts
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Brahmic scripts (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Rishu Shukla, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons.
