01OVERVIEW
Front Matter
SCRIPT · PROFILE
Gujarati
Used by ~55 million people, Gujarati script resembles Devanagari but lacks the top horizontal bar (shirorekha).
Used by ~55 million people, Gujarati script resembles Devanagari but lacks the top horizontal bar (shirorekha). Mahatma Gandhi's mother tongue was Gujarati, and his autobiography "The Story of My Experiments with Truth" is famous in this script. Gujarati merchants spread across Africa and Southeast Asia for centuries, and this script was the medium of their trade records.
04SPECIMEN
The Letters
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Glyph evolution
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06MECHANICS
Reading Mechanics
Direction · Method↔
Direction
Left to Right (LTR)
Left to right (LTR)
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System
Abugida
⌨
Input method
Direct Unicode input
Keyboard layout
Standard IME · input chart
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07LINEAGE
The Lineage
Family · DescendantsPhylogeny
Ancestors & descendants
Phylogeny
Related scripts
Ancestors · Descendants · Family
08REACH