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Front Matter

Gujarati

Used by ~55 million people, Gujarati script resembles Devanagari but lacks the top horizontal bar (shirorekha).

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Era
Modern
Region
South Asia
System
Abugida
Direction
Left to Right (LTR)
Signs
46
Status
Active
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.
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The Letters

Signs · Unicode · Types
Sample GlyphsClick to copy
Unicode
Range 1U+0A80–U+0AFF
Total signs46
In Unicode91
Unicode Blocks
Gujarati
0A80 – 0AFF
91 chars→
Glyph evolution
Form change over time
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Reading Mechanics

Direction · Method
↔
Direction
Left to Right (LTR)
좌→우 (LTR)
α
System
Abugida
⌨
Input method
Direct Unicode input
Keyboard layout
Standard IME · input chart
Keyboard layout data not yet available.
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The Lineage

Family · Descendants
Phylogeny
Descendants of hieroglyphs
Phylogeny
Related scripts
Ancestors · Descendants · Family

Ancestors

Devanagari

Same family

SundaneseBrahmi ScriptDevanagariBengali (Bangla)Gurmukhi (Punjabi)Tamil ScriptTelugu ScriptKannada Script
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In the World

Usage · Reach

Languages

Gujarati

Countries

India