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Gurmukhi
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Gurmukhī ( , Shahmukhi: ) is an abugida developed from the Laṇḍā scripts, standardized and used by the second Sikh guru, Guru Angad (1504–1552). Commonly regarded as a Sikh script, Gurmukhi is used in Punjab, India as the official script of the Punjabi language.
Gurmukhi is a writing system that was developed from earlier scripts and standardized by Guru Angad, the second leader of Sikhism, in the 1500s. Today it is used as the official script for writing the Punjabi language in Punjab, India, and is closely associated with Sikh tradition.
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Key facts
- Writing system.iso15924
- Guru
- Writing system.name
- Gurmukhī
- Writing system.altname
- ਗੁਰਮੁਖੀ
- Writing system.languages
- Punjabi Punjabi dialects Sant Bhasha (historical) Sindhi (historical) Braj (historical)
- Writing system.sample
- File:Gurmukhi Script - modern alphabet.svg
- Writing system.caption
- Modern Gurmukhi letter set
- Writing system.time
- 16th century CE-present
- Writing system.type
- Abugida
- Writing system.fam1
- Egyptian hieroglyphs
- Writing system.fam2
- Proto-Sinaitic script
- Writing system.fam3
- Phoenician alphabet
- Writing system.fam4
- Aramaic alphabet
- Writing system.fam5
- Brahmi
- Writing system.fam6
- Gupta
- Writing system.fam7
- Sharada
- Writing system.fam8
- Landa
- Writing system.children
- Anandpur Lipi
- Writing system.sisters
- Khudabadi, Khojki, Mahajani, Multani
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Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- Brahmic scripts
- Based on
- Laṇḍā scripts
- Image
- 17th century Mul Mantar, Guru Arjan handwriting, Kartarpur manuscript.jpg
- Has use
- Punjabi
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- topic's main category
- Category:Gurmukhi
- Commons category
- Gurmukhi
- Unicode range
- U+0A00-0A7F
- name
- gourmoukhî
- inception
- 1600-00-00
- native label
- گرمکھی
- language of work or name
- Sindhi
- Wikimedia language code
- pa
- replaces
- Sharada
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Encyclopedic overview
31 sectionsContents
- History and development
- Antecedents
- Sikhism
- Modern times
- Etymology
- Characters
- Letters
- Supplementary letters
- Subscript letters
- Vowel diacritics
- Orthography
- Other signs
- Gemination
- Nasalisation
- Vowel suppression
- Punctuation
- Numerals
- Glyphs
- Palaeography
- Vowels
- Spacing
- Styles
- Unicode
- Digitization
- Manuscripts
- Internet domain names
- See also
- Notes
- References
- Bibliography
- External links
Gurmukhī ( , Shahmukhi: ) is an abugida developed from the Laṇḍā scripts, standardized and used by the second Sikh guru, Guru Angad (1504–1552). Commonly regarded as a Sikh script, Gurmukhi is used in Punjab, India as the official script of the Punjabi language.
The primary scripture of Sikhism, the Guru Granth Sahib, is written in Gurmukhī, in various dialects and languages often subsumed under the generic title Sant Bhasha or "saint language", in addition to other languages like Persian and various phases of Indo-Aryan languages.
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