Khudawadi

An official Sindhi hand, briefly.

Also known as: Hindu Sindhi script, Sindhi Khudawadi

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Meanings

The script devised in the nineteenth century as an official script for Sindhi and displaced by an Arabic-based orthography.

Historically documentedVerified fact
Wrote Sindhi in an officially standardised Brahmic form.
Contexts: Language and transcription, History
Historically documentedVerified fact
Standardised out of several competing mercantile hands and then displaced within a few decades by an Arabic-based orthography adopted for Sindhi, so a deliberate unification lost to a different script entirely.
Contexts: Language and transcription, History

Visual description

Brahmic letters in a rounded hand, standardised from the mercantile scripts of Sindh into a single official form.

Symmetry: none
Orientation: upright

Confidence

IdentityModerate confidence: Moderate confidence because the identity is documented in encyclopedic references, but only a single source has been found so far.
Historical originLow confidence: Low confidence because the historical origin is documented in encyclopedic references, but only a single source has been found so far, but the regional or cultural match to this specific claim is not precise.
Current useModerate confidence: Moderate confidence because the current use is documented in encyclopedic references, but only a single source has been found so far.
Visual matchModerate confidence: Moderate confidence because the visual match is documented in encyclopedic references, but only a single source has been found so far.

Sources

The world's writing systems and their notation
Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press and comparable scholarly editions · retrieved 2026-08-27
Scholarly treatment of scripts not covered by a regional source already registered. Cited for the identity, structure and documented use of a script or a mark. Undeciphered and partly deciphered scripts are recorded as such, and a reading that is contested is stated as contested rather than adopted.

Last reviewed 2026-08-27

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Meanings

The script devised in the nineteenth century as an official script for Sindhi and displaced by an Arabic-based orthography.

Historically documentedVerified fact

Wrote Sindhi in an officially standardised Brahmic form.

Contexts: Language and transcription, History

Historically documentedVerified fact

Standardised out of several competing mercantile hands and then displaced within a few decades by an Arabic-based orthography adopted for Sindhi, so a deliberate unification lost to a different script entirely.

Contexts: Language and transcription, History

Confidence

IdentityModerate confidence: Moderate confidence because the identity is documented in encyclopedic references, but only a single source has been found so far.
Historical originLow confidence: Low confidence because the historical origin is documented in encyclopedic references, but only a single source has been found so far, but the regional or cultural match to this specific claim is not precise.
Current useModerate confidence: Moderate confidence because the current use is documented in encyclopedic references, but only a single source has been found so far.
Visual matchModerate confidence: Moderate confidence because the visual match is documented in encyclopedic references, but only a single source has been found so far.

Sources

The world's writing systems and their notation
Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press and comparable scholarly editions · retrieved 2026-08-27
Scholarly treatment of scripts not covered by a regional source already registered. Cited for the identity, structure and documented use of a script or a mark. Undeciphered and partly deciphered scripts are recorded as such, and a reading that is contested is stated as contested rather than adopted.

Last reviewed 2026-08-27