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A community's script for its own texts.
Also known as: Khwajah Sindhi
The script used by the Khoja community for religious and commercial writing in South Asia.
Wrote religious and commercial texts for the Khoja community.
Contexts: Language and transcription, History
Developed a fuller vowel notation than the mercantile scripts it descends from precisely because it came to be used for religious texts, where a wrong reading mattered — the same pressure that produced the Masoretic pointing and the Avestan alphabet.
Contexts: Language and transcription, History
Rounded Brahmic letters descended from the Sindhi mercantile hands, with a fuller vowel notation than its commercial relatives.