Khojkī
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| Type |
Abugida |
| Languages |
Gujarati, Sindhi |
| Parent systems |
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| Sister systems |
Gurmukhī |
| ISO 15924 |
Khoj, 322 |
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[a] The Semitic origin of the Brahmic scripts is not universally agreed upon.
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Khojki (Urdu: خوجكى ) or Khojiki was a script used almost exclusively by the Khoja community of parts of South Asia such as Sindh. It was employed primarily to record Muslim Shia Ismaili religious literature, as well as literature for a few secret Shia Muslim sects.
The (Nizari Ismaili) tradition states that Khojki was created by Pir Sadardin (da‘i Pir Sadruddin). He was sent by the Ismaili Imam of the time to spread the Ismaili Muslim faith in South Asia (Jampudip). He did this by singing and teaching Ismaili Muslim Ginans (devotional and religious literature). He then wrote them down in Khojki.
[edit] Proposed Unicode support
There is a project to encode the Khojki script in the Unicode standard, for which Anshuman Pandey has submitted a proposal to the Unicode Technical Committee[1].
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