01OVERVIEW
Front Matter
SCRIPT · PROFILE
Multani
Commercial script used in the Multan region of modern Punjab, Pakistan from the 19th century until the 1947 partition.
Commercial script used in the Multan region of modern Punjab, Pakistan from the 19th century until the 1947 partition. Hindu merchants used it for accounting and trade records. It effectively disappeared when Hindu traders migrated to India after partition. Multan was a key node on the ancient Silk Road, and this script is a product of that trading tradition.
04SPECIMEN
The Letters
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Glyph evolution
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06MECHANICS
Reading Mechanics
Direction · Method↔
Direction
Left to Right (LTR)
Written left to right.
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System
Abugida
⌨
Input method
Direct Unicode input
Keyboard layout
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07LINEAGE
The Lineage
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Ancestors & descendants
Phylogeny
Related scripts
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08REACH