Sourashtra alphabet    Sourashtra

Origin

The Sourashtra alphabet was developed towards the end of the 19th century. A number of Sourashtra letters a similar to letters in the Oriya and Gujarati alphabets. Sourashtra has also been written with Telugu and Devanagari alphabets but is usually written with a slightly modified version of the Tamil alphabet.

Notable features

Used to write

Sourashtra, an Indo-Aryan language closely related to Gujarati and spoken by about 310,000 people in southern Indian states of Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, and Andhra Pradesh, particularly in Salem, Thanjavur, and Madurai cities.

Sourashtra vowels and vowel diacritics with 'ka'

Sourashtra vowels and vowel diacritics

Sourashtra consonants

Sourashtra consonants

Sourashtra numerals

Sourashtra numerals

Links

Information about the Sourashtra language and culture
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saurashtra_language
http://www.palkar.org
http://www.sourashtra.com

Upamanyu - a blog about Sourashtra language and literature
http://subramanian-obula.blogspot.com

Recording in Sourashtra
http://dsal.uchicago.edu/lsi/161AK

Learn Sourashtra
http://learn.sourashtra.info/

Information about the Sourashtra alphabet (in PDF format)
http://std.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc2/wg2/docs/n2549.pdf

Vishwa Sourashtram - First International Journal in Sourashtra
http://sourashtra.info

Free Sourashtra fonts and other information about Sourashtra language & culture
http://www.palkar.org
http://www.sourashtra.info/daar.htm

Indo-Aryan languages

Assamese, Bengali, Bhojpuri, Chakma, Dhivehi, Gujarati, Hindi, Kashmiri, Konkani, Kotia, Kutchi, Maithili, Marathi, Modi, Nepali, Oriya, Punjabi, Rajasthani, Romany, Saraiki, Sindhi, Sinhala, Sourashtra, Sugali, Sylheti, Urdu

Syllabic alphabets / abugidas

Ahom, Balinese, Batak, Bengali, Brahmi, Buhid, Burmese, Chakma, Cham, Dehong Dai, Devanagari, Dhives Akuru, Ethiopic, Evēla Akuru, Gondi, Grantha, Gujarati, Gupta, Gurmukhi (Punjabi), Hanuno'o, Hmong, Javanese, Kannada, Kharosthi, Khmer, Lanna, Lao, Lepcha, Limbu, Lontara/Makasar, Malayalam, Manpuri, Modi, New Tai Lue, Oriya, Pallava, Phags-pa, Ranjana, Redjang, Shan, Sharda, Siddham, Sindhi, Sinhala, Sorang Sompeng, Sourashtra, Soyombo, Sundanese, Syloti Nagri, Tagalog, Tagbanwa, Takri, Tamil, Telugu, Thai, Tibetan, Tocharian, Varang Kshiti

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