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A merchant's script with no vowels.
Also known as: Mahajani mercantile script
The script used by trading communities of north-west India for account-keeping.
Recorded accounts and commercial correspondence among north-west Indian trading communities.
Contexts: Language and transcription, History
Wrote no vowels at all, which was workable because a reader knew the names and the numbers already — a script deliberately underspecified for a context where ambiguity could not arise, and unreadable outside it.
Contexts: Language and transcription, History
Angular Brahmic letters written without vowel signs and without a headstroke, in short entries rather than continuous text.