Takri script

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Takri
Type	Abugida
Spoken languages	Dogri, Kishtwari, Sirmauri, Chamiyali
Parent systems	Proto-Canaanite alphabet ^[a] → Phoenician alphabet ^[a] → Aramaic alphabet ^[a] → Brāhmī → Gupta → Śāradā → Takri
Sister systems	Gurmukhī
[a] The Semitic origin of the Brahmic scripts is not universally agreed upon.
Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode.

The Brahmic script and its descendants
Brāhmī Northern Brahmic Kusan Gupta Śāradā Landa Old Kashmiri Gurmukhī Takri Dogri Chameali Siddhaṃ Nāgarī Devanāgarī Nandināgarī Gujarati Proto-Bengali Eastern Nagari Bengali Assamese Mithilakshar Oriya Nepal Bhujimol Ranjana Tibetan ’Phagspa Southern Brahmic Tamil Brahmi Vatteluttu Tamil Pallava Grantha Malayalam Tulu Khmer Thai Lao Old Kawi Balinese Javanese Mon Burmese Kalinga Kadamba Old Kannada Kannada Telugu Sinhala

The Brahmic script and its descendants

Brāhmī

Northern Brahmic
- Kusan
- Gupta
  - Śāradā
    - Landa
      - Old Kashmiri
      - Gurmukhī
    - Takri
      - Dogri
      - Chameali
  - Siddhaṃ
    - Nāgarī
      - Devanāgarī
      - Nandināgarī
      - Gujarati
    - Proto-Bengali
  - Nepal
    - Bhujimol
    - Ranjana
  - Tibetan
    - ’Phagspa
Southern Brahmic
- Tamil Brahmi
  - Vatteluttu
    - Tamil
- Pallava Grantha
  - Malayalam
  - Tulu
  - Khmer
    - Thai
      - Lao
  - Old Kawi
    - Balinese
    - Javanese
  - Mon
    - Burmese
- Kalinga
- Kadamba
  - Old Kannada
    - Kannada
    - Telugu
- Sinhala

The Takri script (sometimes called Tankri) is an abugida writing system of the Brahmic family of scripts. It is closely related to, and derived from, the Sharada script employed by Kashmiri. It is also related to the Gurmukhī script used to write Punjabi. Until the late 1940s, Takri was the official script for writing the Dogri language in the state of Jammu and Kashmir. Takri has historically been used by a number of Pahari,Nepali(Khas Kura) and Dardic languages and dialects in the Western Himalayas, such as Gaddi or Gaddki (the language of the Gaddi ethnic group), Kashtwari (the dialect centered around the Kashtwar or Kishtwar region of Jammu and Kashmir) and Chamiyali (the language of the Chamba region of Himachal Pradesh).

1 Proposed Unicode Support
2 Revival Movements
3 References
4 External Resources

[edit] Proposed Unicode Support

There is a project to encode the Takri script in the Unicode standard. Anshuman Pandey has submitted a proposal for Takri to the Unicode Technical Committee ^[1]. Takri is tentatively allocated in the Supplmental Multilingual Plane (SMP) at the code block U+11680 to U+116DF.

[edit] Revival Movements

Since Takri fell into disuse, there have been sporadic attempts to revive the script in Jammu and Kashmir and Himachal Pradesh states. Kashtwari and Kulluvi are two languages for which recent efforts have been made.