Gujarati

Also known as Gujarati script, Gujarati alphabet, Gujr

Indian script

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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name: Gujarati
Commons category: Gujarati script
Unicode range: U+0A80-0AFF
inception: 1592-00-00
native label: ગુજરાતી લિપિ

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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.