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A script for a migrant community.
Also known as: Sourashtra script
The script devised for the Saurashtra language spoken by a community settled in Tamil Nadu.
Writes the Saurashtra language of a community long settled in Tamil Nadu.
Contexts: Language and transcription, History
Carries an Indo-Aryan phonology in letterforms shaped by the southern scripts around it, so the script records both the community's origin and the place it settled — the language points one way and the letterforms the other.
Contexts: Language and transcription, History
Brahmic letters with a rounded southern appearance but an Indo-Aryan sound inventory, written left to right.