Kaithi

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Kaithi is a historical Brahmic script from northern India that was used to write several Indo-Aryan languages, including Bhojpuri, Magahi, and Maithili.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Kaithi canonical 9

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Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Brahmic script
historical script
addedToUnicodeVersion Unicode 5.2
currentStatus no longer widely used
subject of scholarly study
derivedFrom Gupta script
hasConsonantConjuncts yes
hasIndependentVowels yes
hasNuktaLikeMarks yes
hasNumerals yes
hasUnicodeBlock Kaithi
hasVowelDiacritics yes
historicalFunction correspondence
record-keeping
ISO15924Code Kthi
primaryUsage administrative writing
commercial records
legal documents
relatedTo Nagari scripts
linked to: Nagari script
replacedBy Devanagari
linked to: Devanagari script

Perso-Arabic script
scriptCategory Indo-Aryan language script
scriptFamily Brahmic
sisterScript Bengali–Assamese script
linked to: Bengali script

Devanagari
linked to: Devanagari script

Odia script
Sharada script
timePeriodOfDecline early 20th century
timePeriodOfUse 19th century
early modern period
medieval period
UnicodeBlockRange U+11080–U+110CF
usedByCommunity Kayastha community
usedForScriptReformOrStandardization no major modern standardization
usedInRegion Northern India
linked to: northern India
usedInTerritory Bihar
Jharkhand
Madhya Pradesh
Uttar Pradesh
usedToWriteLanguage Awadhi
Bhojpuri
Hindi
Magahi
Maithili
Urdu
linked to: Urdu language
writingDirection left-to-right
writingSystemScope regional
writingSystemType abugida

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Referenced by (9)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Nagpuri script Kaithi
Kaithi hasUnicodeBlock Kaithi
Kthi representsScript Kaithi
Kthi scriptName Kaithi
Kthi scriptUnicodeBlock Kaithi
Kaidhi alternativeTitle Kaithi
subject linked to: Kaidhi (Kaithi)
Leo hasConnectionTo Kaithi