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Śāradā script

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Type
  
Abugida

Child systems
  
Gurmukhī Takri Landa

Languages
  
Sanskrit, Kashmiri

Sister systems
  
Nāgarī Siddhaṃ

Śāradā script sanskritjnuacinsharadaimagessharadascriptjpg

Time period
  
c. 800 CE–present (almost extinct)

Parent systems
  
Proto-Sinaitic alphabet Phoenician alphabet Aramaic alphabet Brāhmī Gupta Śāradā

The Śāradā or Sarada or Sharada script is an abugida writing system of the Brahmic family of scripts, developed around the 8th century. It was used for writing Sanskrit and Kashmiri. The Gurmukhī script was developed from Śāradā. 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.

This is a native script of Kashmir and named after the deity, Goddess Sharda. Śāradā is another name for Saraswati, the goddess of learning.

Sharada script uses its own signs for the positional decimal numeral system.

Unicode

Śāradā script was added to the Unicode Standard in January, 2012 with the release of version 6.1.

The Unicode block for Śāradā script, called Sharada, is U+11180–U+111DF:

References

Śāradā script Wikipedia