Shahmukhi
Sign in to saveAlso known as Shah mukhi, Shahmukhi script, Shahmukhi Punjabi, Punjabi Shahmukhi, Shahmukhi orthography, Perso-Arabic orthography for Punjabi, Panjabi Shahmukhi, Shahmukhi Panjabi
Key facts
- Writing system.name
- Shahmukhi
- Writing system.languages
- Punjabi (incl. dialects and varieties)
- Writing system.time
- 17th century–present
- Writing system.type
- Abjad
- Writing system.fam1
- Egyptian hieroglyphs
- Writing system.fam2
- Proto-Sinaitic
- Writing system.fam3
- Phoenician
- Writing system.fam4
- Aramaic
- Writing system.fam5
- Nabataean
- Writing system.fam6
- Arabic
- Writing system.fam7
- Perso-Arabic
- Writing system.region
- Punjab, Hazara, Azad Kashmir
- Writing system.sample
- Standard Shahmukhi alphabets.png
- Writing system.caption
- Shahmukhi alphabets
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- Wikimedia category
- Country
- India
- Image
- Shahmukhi1.JPG
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- Commons category
- Shahmukhi
- script directionality
- right-to-left
- language of work or name
- Punjabi
- different from
- Western Punjabi
- native label
- ਸ਼ਾਹਮੁਖੀ
- Wikimedia language code
- pnb
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Encyclopedic overview
12 sectionsContents
- History
- Alphabet
- Vowel diacritics
- Consonants
- Aspirates
- Difference from Persian and Urdu
- Pronunciation
- Gallery
- See also
- References
- Further reading
- External links
Shahmukhi (, , , ) is the right-to-left abjad-based script developed from the Perso-Arabic alphabet used for the Punjabi language varieties, predominantly in Punjab, Pakistan. It is generally written in the Nastaʿlīq calligraphic hand, which is also used for Persian and Urdu. Shahmukhi is one of the two standard scripts used for Punjabi, the other being Gurmukhī used mainly in Punjab, India. Shahmukhi is written from right to left and has 36 primary letters with some other additional letters.
== History == Before the advent of Shahmukhi, writing systems were not popular for the Old Punjabi varieties.
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