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SCRIPTA · MASARAM GONDI
01Front Matter04The Letters06Mechanics07Lineage08In the World
01OVERVIEW

Front Matter

SCRIPT · PROFILE

Masaram Gondi

Created in 1918 by Munshi Masaram for the Gond people of central India, who had been writing their language in Devanagari or Telugu.

𑴀 𑴁 𑴂 𑴃 𑴄 𑴅 𑴆 𑴇
Era
Modern
Region
South Asia
System
Abugida
Direction
Left to Right (LTR)
Signs
55
Status
Endangered
Created in 1918 by Munshi Masaram for the Gond people of central India, who had been writing their language in Devanagari or Telugu. Active digital adoption is underway and the Indian government officially recognizes the script. A second Gondi script system that developed independently from Gunjala Gondi — a rare case of two indigenous scripts competing to write the same language.
04SPECIMEN

The Letters

Signs · Unicode · Types
Sample GlyphsClick to copy
Unicode
Range 1U+11D00–U+11D5F
Total signs55
In Unicode75
Unicode Blocks
Masaram Gondi
11D00 – 11D5F
75 chars→
Glyph evolution
Form change over time
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06MECHANICS

Reading Mechanics

Direction · Method
↔
Direction
Left to Right (LTR)
Left to right (LTR)
α
System
Abugida
⌨
Input method
Direct Unicode input
Keyboard layout
Standard IME · input chart
Keyboard layout data not yet available.
07LINEAGE

The Lineage

Family · Descendants
Phylogeny
Ancestors & descendants
Phylogeny
Related scripts
Ancestors · Descendants · Family

Ancestors

Brahmi Script

Same family

SundaneseBrahmi ScriptDevanagariBengali (Bangla)GujaratiGurmukhi (Punjabi)Tamil ScriptTelugu Script
08REACH

In the World

Usage · Reach

Languages

Gondi

Countries

India
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