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Front Matter
Gurmukhi (Punjabi)
Perfected in the 16th century by Sikh Guru Angad Dev — its name means "from the mouth of the Guru." The Sikh holy scripture Guru Granth Sahib is written in this script, as are all inscriptions in the Golden Temple (Amritsar).
Perfected in the 16th century by Sikh Guru Angad Dev — its name means "from the mouth of the Guru." The Sikh holy scripture Guru Granth Sahib is written in this script, as are all inscriptions in the Golden Temple (Amritsar). Used by ~35 million Punjabis, it remains the cultural identity core of Sikh diaspora communities in the UK.
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The Letters
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Reading Mechanics
Direction · Method↔
Direction
Left to Right (LTR)
좌→우 (LTR)
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System
Abugida
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Input method
Direct Unicode input
Keyboard layout
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The Lineage
Family · DescendantsPhylogeny
Descendants of hieroglyphs
Phylogeny
Related scripts
Ancestors · Descendants · Family
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