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by svat 3029 days ago
For example, when the article says:

> five of the most widely used scripts in India—Devanagari, Gujarati, Gurumukhi, Tamil, and Latin. Those five scripts support seven or eight of India’s most widely used languages, together spoken by hundreds of millions of people across the Indian subcontinent.

this list of scripts actually does not cover (for example) Bengali and Telugu, which together have more speakers than the population of the United States.

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which means Telugu and Bengali have more speakers but their scripts are not as widely used in digital world.