Sharada script
| Śāradā | ||
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| Type | Abugida | |
| Languages | Kashmiri and Sanskrit | |
| Time period | ~800 CE to the present (almost extinct) | |
| Parent systems | Proto-Sinaitic → Phoenician → Aramaic → Brāhmī → Gupta script → Śāradā |
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 Kashmiri Shaivaite manuscript (17th or 18th century) |
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| Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. | ||
The Sharada script (शारदा, Śāradā) is an abugida writing system of the Brahmic family of scripts, developed from ca. the 8th century. It is closely related to and predates Devanagari, although it shared greater genetic affinity to Gurmukhi. Originally more widespread, its use became later restricted to Kashmir, and it is now rarely used except by the Kashmiri Pandit community for ceremonial purposes. The name śāradā is derived from a Sanskrit term meaning "autumnal".
An effort is underway to develop the Sharada script for use in digital media by encoding the script in the Unicode standard, for which a proposal[1] to allocate the script in the Unicode Roadmap has been submitted as the first step.
Also see
- Sharada Peeth in Kashmir
References
- ^ Pandey, Anshuman. 2005. Request to Allocate the Sharada Script in the Unicode Roadmap
External links
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