Gujarati script
E26244
The Gujarati script is an abugida used primarily to write the Gujarati language and related Indo-Aryan languages, derived from the Devanagari script and characterized by the absence of the horizontal headline.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Gujarati script canonical | 38 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T189338 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Gujarati script Context triple: [Sanskrit, writingSystem, Gujarati script]
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A.
Devanagari script
Devanagari script is an abugida writing system used for several major South Asian languages, including Hindi, Marathi, Nepali, and Sanskrit.
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B.
Sharada script
The Sharada script is an ancient Brahmic writing system historically used in the northwestern Indian subcontinent, especially in Kashmir, primarily for writing Sanskrit and Kashmiri.
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C.
Brahmi script
The Brahmi script is one of the oldest writing systems of the Indian subcontinent, serving as the ancestor of most modern South and Southeast Asian scripts.
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D.
Grantha script
Grantha script is a historical South Indian writing system primarily used to record Sanskrit texts, especially in the Tamil-speaking regions.
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E.
Gurmukhi
Gurmukhi is an Indic writing system primarily used for the Punjabi language and for recording Sikh religious scriptures.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Gujarati script Target entity description: The Gujarati script is an abugida used primarily to write the Gujarati language and related Indo-Aryan languages, derived from the Devanagari script and characterized by the absence of the horizontal headline.
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A.
Devanagari script
Devanagari script is an abugida writing system used for several major South Asian languages, including Hindi, Marathi, Nepali, and Sanskrit.
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B.
Sharada script
The Sharada script is an ancient Brahmic writing system historically used in the northwestern Indian subcontinent, especially in Kashmir, primarily for writing Sanskrit and Kashmiri.
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C.
Brahmi script
The Brahmi script is one of the oldest writing systems of the Indian subcontinent, serving as the ancestor of most modern South and Southeast Asian scripts.
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D.
Grantha script
Grantha script is a historical South Indian writing system primarily used to record Sanskrit texts, especially in the Tamil-speaking regions.
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E.
Gurmukhi
Gurmukhi is an Indic writing system primarily used for the Punjabi language and for recording Sikh religious scriptures.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Brahmic script
ⓘ
abugida ⓘ writing system ⓘ |
| belongsTo | Indo-Aryan cultural sphere ⓘ |
| derivedFrom |
Devanagari script
ⓘ
Nagari scripts ⓘ
linked to:
Nagari script
|
| hasAlternateName | ગુજરાતી લિપિ ⓘ |
| hasCharacteristic |
consonant-based script with inherent vowel
ⓘ
does not use uppercase and lowercase distinction ⓘ has distinct signs for nasalization and aspiration ⓘ has ligatures for certain consonant clusters ⓘ has separate signs for independent vowels ⓘ lacks the continuous horizontal headline of Devanagari ⓘ uses dependent vowel signs ⓘ uses diacritics to modify consonants ⓘ uses punctuation influenced by Western and Devanagari conventions ⓘ |
| hasConsonantCount | approximately 34 basic consonant letters ⓘ |
| hasDigitSet | Gujarati digits ૦ ૧ ૨ ૩ ૪ ૫ ૬ ૭ ૮ ૯ ⓘ |
| hasEncoding | supported in major digital fonts and operating systems ⓘ |
| hasISO15924Number | 320 ⓘ |
| hasPunctuation | uses danda (।) in some traditional texts ⓘ |
| hasTeaching | taught in primary schools in Gujarat ⓘ |
| hasUnicodeVersion | Unicode 1.1 and later ⓘ |
| hasVowelCount | approximately 12 vowel letters including diacritics ⓘ |
| historicalDevelopment | standardized during the 16th–19th centuries ⓘ |
| inherentVowel | /ə/ or /a/ following consonants unless modified ⓘ |
| partOf | Brahmic family of scripts ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
Bengali-Assamese script
ⓘ
linked to:
Bengali script
Devanagari script ⓘ Gurmukhi script ⓘ
linked to:
Gurmukhi
|
| scriptFor |
Standard Gujarati
ⓘ
linked to:
Gujarati
several dialects of Gujarati ⓘ |
| standardLanguageCode | ISO 15924 code: Gujr ⓘ |
| unicodeBlock | Gujarati (0A80–0AFF) ⓘ |
| usedByCommunity |
Gujarati people
ⓘ
Parsi community in Gujarat ⓘ |
| usedFor |
Gujarati literature
ⓘ
Gujarati newspapers and books ⓘ education and administration in Gujarat ⓘ writing several Indo-Aryan languages of Gujarat ⓘ writing the Avestan language in some Parsi contexts ⓘ writing the Gujarati language ⓘ writing the Kutchi language ⓘ |
| usedIn |
Gujarat, India
ⓘ
linked to:
Gujarat
Gujarati diaspora communities worldwide ⓘ |
| visualFeature |
absence of top headline in most letters
ⓘ
rounded letterforms compared to Devanagari ⓘ |
| writingDirection | left-to-right ⓘ |
| writingSystemType | alphasyllabary ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Gujarati script Description of subject: The Gujarati script is an abugida used primarily to write the Gujarati language and related Indo-Aryan languages, derived from the Devanagari script and characterized by the absence of the horizontal headline.
Referenced by (38)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.