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Mahajani

Mahajani
Type
Languages Hindi, Punjabi, and Marwari
Parent systems
ISO 15924 Mahj, 314
Direction Left-to-right
Unicode alias
Mahajani
U+11150–U+1117F
[a] The Semitic origin of the Brahmic scripts is not universally agreed upon.
Brāhmī
The Brahmic script and its descendants

Mahajani is a Laṇḍā mercantile script that was historically used in northern India for writing accounts and financial records in Hindi, Punjabi, and Marwari.[1] It is a Brahmic script and is written left-to-right.

Mahajani Script Chart.

Unicode

Mahajani script was added to the Unicode Standard in June 2014 with the release of version 7.0.

The Unicode block for Mahajani is U+11150–U+1117F:

Mahajani[1][2]
Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF)
  0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C D E F
U+1115x ᅐ ᅑ ᅒ ᅓ ᅔ ᅕ ᅖ ᅗ ᅘ ᅙ ᅚ ᅛ ᅜ ᅝ ᅞ ᅟ
U+1116x ᅠ ᅡ ᅢ ᅣ ᅤ ᅥ ᅦ ᅧ ᅨ ᅩ ᅪ ᅫ ᅬ ᅭ ᅮ ᅯ
U+1117x ᅰ ᅱ ᅲ ᅳ ᅴ ᅵ ᅶ
Notes
1.^ As of Unicode version 7.0
2.^ Grey areas indicate non-assigned code points

References

  1. ^ Pandey, Anshuman. "N4126: Proposal to Encode the Mahajani Script in ISO/IEC 10646". Retrieved 3 July 2014. 
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