Gurmukhi
ਗੁਰਮੁਖੀSample Characters
First 48 characters from Gurmukhi (U+0A01–U+0A76)
About Gurmukhi
The Gurmukhi script (ਗੁਰਮੁਖੀ, meaning 'from the Guru's mouth') was standardized by Guru Angad Dev, the second Sikh Guru, in the 16th century to write the Punjabi language. It is the primary script for Punjabi in India and the liturgical script of Sikhism.
Gurmukhi is an abugida descended from the Lahnda script (a descendent of Brahmi). It has 35 consonants and is written left-to-right with a distinctive horizontal bar connecting letters at the top. The Guru Granth Sahib, the Sikh holy scripture, is written in Gurmukhi.
Data sourced from the ISO 15924 registry, Unicode CLDR, and the Unicode Character Database.
Script Family & Lineage
Languages Using Gurmukhi 1
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Key Facts
- ISO Code
- Guru
- ISO Number
- 310
- Script Type
- Abugida
- Direction
- Left-to-right
- Status
- Living
- Region
- South Asian
- Characters
- 80
- Introduced
- 1539 CE
- Languages
- 1
- Total Speakers
- ~65M
Unicode Ranges
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GurmukhiU+0A01–U+0A76
Script Properties
- Has Case
- No
- Cursive
- No
- Vowels
- inherent