Origin from 1592
An abugida used to write Gujarati and Kutchi, adapted from Devanagari by dropping the horizontal head-line (shirorekha) that runs across the top of Devanagari letters, giving Gujarati text a distinctive open, unbroken appearance. The earliest attested Gujarati-script document dates to 1592, and the script was used first mainly for commercial and administrative record-keeping before becoming the standard literary script for Gujarati in the nineteenth century. It otherwise shares Devanagari's vowel-modification and conjunct-consonant structure.
Facts
Directionality In Use Since (Year) Directionality (class) Classification
Script StatusLiving (in Current Use) 1 Classified 'living' per this entity's own cited source and standard scholarly consensus on the script's current use; checked 2026-09-27. Connections
Descends From
Source Wikipedia: Gujarati Script
Is Of Script Type
Script Of
Source Wikipedia: Gujarati Script
Sources
1. Wikipedia: Gujarati Script
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