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Key facts
- Script type
- Abugida
- Period
- c. 1592 – present
- Direction
- Left-to-right
- Languages
- Gujarati , Kutchi , Bhili , Dungra Bhil , Gamit , Kukna , Rajput Garasia , Vaghri , Varli , Vasavi , Avestan ( Indian Zoroastrians )
- Parent systems
- Egyptian Proto-Sinaitic Phoenician Aramaic Brahmi Gupta Siddhaṃ Nāgarī Gujarati
- Sister systems
- Devanagari , Modi , Kaithi , Nandinagari , Gunjala Gondi
- Iso 15924
- Gujr (320) , Gujarati
- Unicode alias
- Gujarati
- Unicode range
- U+0A80 – U+0AFF
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Encyclopedic overview
The Gujarati script (ગુજરાતી લિપિ Gujarātī lipi) is an abugida for the Gujarati language, Kutchi language, and various other languages. It is one of the official scripts of the Indian Republic. It is a variant of the Devanagari script differentiated by the loss of the Shirorekhā, the characteristic horizontal line running above the letters and by a number of modifications to some characters.
Gujarati numerical digits are also different from their Devanagari counterparts.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Gujarati” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.