Landa scripts
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Landa scripts are a historical family of North Indian merchant and administrative scripts that served as precursors to several modern writing systems, including Gurmukhi.
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Brahmic script
ⓘ
abugida ⓘ historical writing system family ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Landa
ⓘ
Lārī scripts ⓘ |
| associatedWithLanguage |
Hindustani language
ⓘ
Punjabi language ⓘ Saraiki ⓘ
surface form:
Saraiki language
Sindhi ⓘ
surface form:
Sindhi language
|
| characteristicFeature |
cursive merchant-style letterforms
ⓘ
frequent omission of vowel notation ⓘ specialization for bookkeeping ⓘ |
| derivedFrom |
Gupta script
ⓘ
Sharada script ⓘ
surface form:
Śāradā script
|
| geographicSpread |
Punjab
ⓘ
Sindh ⓘ northwestern Indian subcontinent ⓘ |
| historicalPeriod |
early modern period
ⓘ
medieval period ⓘ |
| influenced | development of Sikh religious script Gurmukhi ⓘ |
| numeralSystem | Brahmic numerals ⓘ |
| precursorOf |
Gurmukhi
ⓘ
surface form:
Gurmukhi script
Khojki script ⓘ Khudabadi script ⓘ Mahajani script ⓘ Mahajani script ⓘ
surface form:
Multani script
Takri script ⓘ |
| primaryUsers |
accountants
ⓘ
administrative officials ⓘ merchant communities ⓘ |
| scriptClass | Northwestern group of Brahmic scripts ⓘ |
| scriptFamily | Brahmic scripts ⓘ |
| scriptLineageStage | intermediate stage between early Brahmic and modern North Indian scripts ⓘ |
| status | historical ⓘ |
| usageDomain |
business documentation
ⓘ
revenue records ⓘ |
| usedFor |
accounting
ⓘ
commercial correspondence ⓘ |
| usedInContext |
administrative records
ⓘ
merchant records ⓘ |
| usedInRegion |
northern India
ⓘ
surface form:
North India
Punjab ⓘ
surface form:
Punjab region
Sindh ⓘ
surface form:
Sindh region
|
| vowelRepresentation | partially indicated with diacritics ⓘ |
| writingDirection | left-to-right ⓘ |
| writingSystemType | abugida ⓘ |
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