A dash indicates the letter does not exist in that particular language. North Indian script are to the left and South Indian scripts are in the middle, then the Arabic based scripts are on the right. An asterisk denotes that letter is a part of an extended character set of the alphabet. Urdu and Sindhi are Arabic based scripts and are written from right to left. These two are not related to Brahmi. When a letter has multiple counterparts, the most common letter is given.