Writing and Printing
Khojki script
KhojkÄ« (šš²ššš®), is an abugida Indic script. It is a Northern Brahmic script, a part of its Laį¹įøÄ family of writing systems, and was used to write the Sindhi, Kutchi and Gujarati languages from the 15th to 20th century. The landÄ or āclippedā alphabets were primarily employed as commercial and mercantile scripts by various Hindu communities of Sindh and Punjab. The KhojkÄ« script was employed primarily to record Shia Ismaili religious and devotional Islamic literature; most notably in the form of poetry called ginÄns (a term derived from the Sanskrit jnÄna meaning contemplative knowledge). It is one of the two LandÄ scripts used for liturgy, the other being the GurmukhÄ« alphabet, which is associated with Sikhism. The KhojkÄ« script was one of the earliest forms of written Sindhi. It was formerly and almost exclusively by the Khoja Ismaili community. As a scholarly article from 2022 has demonstrated, referring to the script as "Khojki" is a relatively new phenomenon, coined by the Russian scholar Vladimir Ivanow. This neologism began to replace the original terms used by Khoja Ismailis such as SindhÄ« and KhojÄ SindhÄ«. This did not necessarily mean the Sindhi language but rather the script utilized by the Khojas. To avoid confusion, the British administrative bureaucracy added the term KhojÄ, referring to the script as KhojÄ SindhÄ«. The Khoja Ismailis sometimes did the same to distinguish the script from the language, as well as from other scripts used in Sindh. The Khojas continued using the traditional term SindhÄ« alongside the neologism KhojkÄ«. However, many scholars writing in English and other Western languages dropped the traditional term SindhÄ« was adopted the invented term KhojkÄ«.
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