Landa

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Landa is a writing system historically used in parts of the Indian subcontinent, particularly in the Punjab region, for commercial and administrative purposes.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Landa canonical 2

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Statements (47)

Predicate Object
instanceOf abugida
historical script
writing system
alsoKnownAs Landa script
linked to: Landa scripts

Mahajani-type script
linked to: Mahajani script
category South Asian scripts
accountancy scripts
merchant scripts
characteristic consonant-based script
non-standardized orthography
used mainly for bookkeeping
vowels often omitted in writing
derivedFrom Gupta script
geographicContext Northwestern Indian subcontinent
historicalUseContext early colonial period
pre-colonial period
influenced Gurmukhi script
linked to: Gurmukhi

Khojki script
Mahajani script
languageWritten Hindustani
Punjabi
linked to: Punjabi language

Saraiki
Sindhi
region Northwestern India
linked to: northwestern India

Punjab
Sindh
replacedBy Devanagari
linked to: Devanagari script

Gurmukhi
Perso-Arabic scripts
linked to: Perso-Arabic script
scriptFamily Brahmic scripts
scriptType consonant–vowel abugida
status historically used
largely obsolete
timePeriod early modern period
medieval period
usedBy Punjabi merchants
traders in North India
usedFor accounting records
administrative purposes
business correspondence
commercial ledgers
commercial purposes
usedIn Indian subcontinent
linked to: South Asia

Punjab region
linked to: Punjab
writingDirection left-to-right
writingMedium account books
paper

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Referenced by (2)

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

Landa scripts alsoKnownAs Landa
Hans Landa familyName Landa