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Front Matter
Mahajani
Commercial script used by the merchant class (Mahajan) of Rajasthan, Punjab, and Sindh (15th–19th century).
Commercial script used by the merchant class (Mahajan) of Rajasthan, Punjab, and Sindh (15th–19th century). It evolved as a cursive system specialized for accounting ledgers, contracts, and trade records. Though it disappeared after the 1947 partition as Hindi and Urdu were standardized, some elderly traders in Rajasthan continued using it into the 21st century.
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The Letters
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Glyph evolution
Form change over time
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Reading Mechanics
Direction · Method↔
Direction
Left to Right (LTR)
왼쪽에서 오른쪽으로 표기.
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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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