01OVERVIEW
Front Matter
SCRIPT · PROFILE
Saurashtra Script
Script of the Saurashtra community in Madurai, Tamil Nadu — descendants of textile workers who migrated from Gujarat and have preserved their distinct language and script for centuries within Tamil culture.
Script of the Saurashtra community in Madurai, Tamil Nadu — descendants of textile workers who migrated from Gujarat and have preserved their distinct language and script for centuries within Tamil culture. Remarkably, the Saurashtra language retains 80% Sanskrit vocabulary, an unusual linguistic structure.
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
Standard IME · input chart
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07LINEAGE
The Lineage
Family · DescendantsPhylogeny
Ancestors & descendants
Phylogeny
Related scripts
Ancestors · Descendants · Family
08REACH