Lahnda (Landa)
Detail from Landa script chart.
Script details
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| Code | x-landa |
| Script type | abugida |
| Region | South Asian |
| Status | Current |
| Direction | LTR |
| Baseline | hanging |
| Case | no |
| White space | unspecified |
| Complex behaviors | none |
| OpenType code | unspecified |
| ISO 15924 Number | 909 (private use, alias, or special) |
Script description
Section titled “Script description”Lahnda (also Landa) was a Brahmi-derived script used in the Punjab and Sindh regions of what are now India and Pakistan from around the 10th to the early 20th centuries.
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The script was known as a merchants’ script, although it was also used for literature and administrative purposes. Despite being widely used, Lahnda was never standardized, nor its regional variants unified, so there is significant variation in the styles used in different areas. The many varieties are sometimes classified into two broad groups, ‘Punjabi’ and ‘Sindhi’.
The script has now been supplanted by Arabic and Devanagari writing, although its successor, the Gurmukhi script, is widely used throughout the Punjab.
This script is not currently recognized by the ISO 15924 standard
, but is included in Writing Systems Technical Resources for research purposes. If you have any information on this script, please add the information to this site. Your contributions can be a great help in refining and expanding the ISO 15924 standard. The Script Encoding Initiative is working to support the inclusion of this script in the standard, and contributions here will support their efforts.
Languages that use this script
Section titled “Languages that use this script”There are no known languages that use this script.
Unicode status
Section titled “Unicode status”The Lahnda (sometimes called Landa) script is not yet in Unicode. The script has a tentative allocation at U+11250..U+1127F in the Roadmap to the SMP for the Unicode Standard.
Resources
Section titled “Resources”External links
- Landa script chart (Wikimedia)