Sharada script

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Śāradā
Type:	Abugida
Languages:	Kashmiri and Sanskrit
Time period:	~800 CE to the present (almost extinct)
Parent writing systems:	Proto-Sinaitic Phoenician Aramaic Brāhmī Gupta script Śāradā
Kashmiri Shaivaite manuscript (17th or 18th century)
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The Sharada script (Dev: शरदा, IAST: Śāradā) is an abugida writing system of the Brahmic family of scripts, developed from ca. the 8th century. It is closely related to and predates Devanagari, although it shared greater genetic affinity to Gurmukhi. Originally more widespread, its use became later restricted to Kashmir, and it is now rarely used except by the Kashmiri Pandit community for ceremonial ourposes. The name śāradā is derived from a Sanskrit term meaning "autumnal".

An effort is underway to develop the Sharada script for use in digital media by encoding the script in the Unicode standard, for which a proposal^[1] to allocate the script in the Unicode Roadmap has been submitted as the first step.