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Front Matter
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.
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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
Standard IME · input chart
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The Lineage
Family · DescendantsPhylogeny
Descendants of hieroglyphs
Phylogeny
Related scripts
Ancestors · Descendants · Family
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