Khudabadi

The Khudabadi script was was developed by Narayan Jagannath Mehta, the Deputy Educational Inspector in Khudabad, a city in the Dadu District of Sindh province in western Pakistan. It was based mainly on the old Khudabadi script, which was used in Hyderabad. At first it was used just in Khudabad, and was named Khudabadi after the city. People from Khudabad wrote to their Sindhi-speaking relatives in other places in the script, and due to the simplicity of the script, its use soon spread. Sindhi business people then started keeping their accounts and other records in Khudabadi, and schools starting teaching the script.

It was decreed a standard script forSindhi by the Government of Bombay in 1868. It was officially known the 'Hindi Sindhi' or 'Hindu Sindhi', and also as the Khudawadi, Hathvanki, Warangi or Sindhi script. It was eventually replaced by the Perso-Arabic script in the mid-19th century under British influence.

Notable features

Type of writing system:Abugida / Syllabic Alphabet
Writing direction: left to right in horizontal lines
Used to write:Sindhi

Khudabadi script

Details provided by Biswajit Mandal (biswajitmandal[dot]bm90[at]gmail[dot]com)

Sample text

Sample text in the Khudabadi script

Source:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khudabadi_script

Links

Information about the Khudabadi alphabet
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khudabadi_script
https://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U112B0.pdfkhudawadi
https://hindusofsindh.wordpress.com/tag/khudabadi/

Abugidas / Syllabic alphabets

Ahom,Aima,Arleng,Badagu,Badlit,Basahan,Balinese,Balti-A,Balti-B,Batak,Baybayin,Bengali,Bhaiksuki,Bhujimol,Bilang-bilang,Bima,Blackfoot,Brahmi,Buhid,Burmese,Carrier,Chakma,Cham,Cree,Dehong Dai,Devanagari,Dham Lipi,Dhankari / Sirmauri,Ditema,Dives Akuru,Dogra,Ethiopic,Evēla Akuru,Fox,Fraser,Gond,Goykanadi,Grantha,Gujarati,Gunjala Gondi,Gupta,Gurmukhi,Halbi Lipi,Hanifi,Hanuno'o,Hočąk,Ibalnan,Incung,Inuktitut,Jaunsari Takri,Javanese,Kaithi,Kadamba,Kamarupi,Kannada,Kawi,Kharosthi,Khema,Khe Prih,Khmer,Khojki,Khom Thai,Khudabadi,Kirat Rai,Kōchi,Kodava Lipi,Komering,Kulitan,Kurukh Banna,Lai Tay (Tai Yo),Lampung,Lanna,Lao,Leke,Lepcha,Limbu,Lontara/Makasar,Lota Ende,Magar Akkha,Mahajani,Malayalam,Meitei (Modern),Manpuri (Old),Marchen,Meetei Yelhou Mayek,Meroïtic,Masarm Gondi,Modi,Mon,Mongolian Horizontal Square Script,Multani,Nandinagari,Newa,New Tai Lue,Ojibwe,Odia,Ogan,Pahawh Hmong,Pallava,Phags-pa,Purva Licchavi,Qiang / Rma,Ranjana,Rejang (Kaganga),Sasak,Savara,Satera Jontal,Shan,Sharda,Sheek Bakrii Saphaloo,Siddham,Sinhala,Sorang Sompeng,Sourashtra,Soyombo,Sukhothai,Sundanese,Syloti Nagri,Tagbanwa,Tai Noi,Takri,Tamil,Tanchangya (Ka-Pat),Tani,Thaana,Telugu,Thai,Thirke,Tibetan,Tigalari,Tikamuli,Tocharian,Tolong Siki,Vatteluttu,Warang Citi

Other writing systems

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