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{{short description|Indian script}} {{Infobox Writing system | name = Gujarati | languages = [[Gujarati language|Gujarati]], [[Kutchi language|Kutchi]], [[Bhili]], [[Dungra Bhil language|Dungra Bhil]], [[Gamit language|Gamit]], [[Kukna language|Kukna]], [[Rajput Garasia]], [[Vaghri language|Vaghri]], [[Varli language|Varli]], [[Vasavi language|Vasavi]], [[Avestan]] <small>([[Zoroastrianism in India|Indian Zoroastrians]])</small><ref>{{cite web|url=http://scriptsource.org/cms/scripts/page.php?item_id=script_detail&key=Gujr|title=ScriptSource - Gujarati|access-date =2017-02-13}}</ref> | time = {{circa|1592}}–present | type = [[Abugida]] | fam1 = [[Egyptian hieroglyphs|Egyptian]] | fam2 = [[Proto-Sinaitic]] | fam3 = [[Phoenician script|Phoenician]] | fam4 = [[Aramaic script|Aramaic]] | fam5 = [[Brahmi script|Brahmi]] | fam6 = [[Gupta script|Gupta]] | fam7 = [[Siddhaṃ script|Siddhaṃ]] | fam8 = [[Nāgarī script|Nāgarī]]<ref>{{cite book |last1=Salomon |first1=Richard |title=Indian Epigraphy |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XYrG07qQDxkC |publisher=Oxford University Press |date=1998 |page=41|isbn=978-0-19-535666-3 }}</ref> | sisters = [[Devanagari]]{{sfn|Mistry|1996|p=391}}<br>[[Modi script|Modi]]<br>[[Kaithi]]<br>[[Nandinagari]]<br>[[Gunjala Gondi]] | unicode = [https://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U0A80.pdf U+0A80–U+0AFF] | iso15924 = Gujr | native_name = {{lang|gu|ગુજરાતી લિપિ}} | sample = Gujarati Script Sample.svg | imagesize = 200px }} {{brahmic}} {{Writing systems in India}} The '''Gujarati script''' ({{lang|gu|ગુજરાતી લિપિ}}, transliterated: {{Transliteration|gu|Gujǎrātī Lipi}}) is an [[abugida]] for the [[Gujarati language]], [[Kutchi language]], and various other languages. It is one of the [[official scripts of the Indian Republic]]. It is a variant of the [[Devanagari]] script differentiated by the loss of the S''hirorekhā'', the characteristic horizontal line running above the letters and by a number of modifications to some characters.{{sfn|Mistry|1996|p=391}} Gujarati [[numerical digit]]s are also different from their Devanagari counterparts.
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