Khojki script
| Khojkī (Urdu: خوجكى) | ||
|---|---|---|
| Font | Abugida | |
| languages | Gujarati , Sindhi | |
| Used in | India, Pakistan | |
| Officially in | Official writing in countries / provinces / etc. | |
| ancestry |
Protosinaite script [a] Khojkī (Urdu: خوجكى) |
|
| relative | Gurmukhī | |
| Unicode block | U + 11200-U + 1124F | |
The Khojki or Khojiki was a script used almost exclusively by the Chodscha community in parts of South Asia , e.g. B. in the province of Sindh . It was mainly used to record religious literature by Muslims , Shiites and Ismailis , as well as literature for some Shiite and Muslim sects.
The ( nizari -ismailite) tradition assumes that the Khojki script was created by Pir Sadardin (da'i Pir Sadruddin). At that time he was sent by the Ismaili Imam of that time to spread the Ismaili Muslim faith in South Asia (Jampudip). He did this by chanting and teaching Ismaili Muslim ginans (devotional and religious literature). Then he wrote everything down using Khojki.
Unicode
In 2009 Anshuman Pandey submitted a proposal to the Unicode Technical Committee to include the font in the standard. In June 2014 it was finally included in Unicode 7.0 as the Unicode block Khojki (U + 11200 – U + 1124F).
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ Anshuman Pandey: Proposal to Encode the Khojki Script in ISO / IEC 10646. (PDF; 3.0 MB) 2009. (Proposal for encoding the Khojki script in ISO / IEC 10646)
- ↑ Unicode 7.0.0. Unicode Consortium, June 16, 2014, accessed June 17, 2014 .