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Contents

Proposal Summary Form i

1 Introduction 1

2 Background 1

3 Characters Proposed 4

3.1 Character Set . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
3.2 Basis for Character Set and Glyph Shapes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
3.3 Characters Not Proposed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

4 TheWriting System 7

4.1 General Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
4.2 Inadequacies of the Script . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
4.3 Supression of Inherent Vowel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
4.4 Consonant-Vowel Ligatures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
4.5 Consonant Conjuncts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
4.6 Nasalization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
4.7 Consonant Gemination . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
4.8 Creation of New Characters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
4.9 Punctuation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
4.10 Abbreviations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
4.11 Number Forms and Unit Marks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
4.12 Variants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

5 Implementation 13

5.1 Encoding Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
5.2 Collation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
5.3 Character Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
5.4 Outstanding Issues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
6 References 18

List of Tables

1 Glyph chart for Khojki . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
2 Names list for Khojki . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

List of Figures

1 Inventory of Khojki vowel letters from Grierson (1905) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
2 Inventory of Khojki consonant letters from Grierson (1905) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
3 Inventory of Khojki consonant letters from Grierson (1905) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
4 Inventory of Khojki independent vowel letters from Asani (1992) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
5 Inventory of Khojki dependent vowel signs from Asani (1992) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
6 Inventory of Khojki consonants (b to dy) from Asani (1992) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
7 Inventory of Khojki consonants (jh to s) from Asani (1992) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
8 Inventory of Khojki consonants (sh to l) from Asani (1992) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
9 Inventory of Khojki consonants (m to dhr) from Asani (1992) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
10 Traditional arrangement of Khojki characters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
11 Arrangement of Khojki characters on the traditional Indic phonological pattern . . . . . . . . . . 29
12 Comparison of Khojki with other scripts (a to au) from Khakee (1981) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
13 Comparison of Khojki with other scripts (ka to d.
a) from Khakee (1981) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
14 Comparison of Khojki with other scripts (d.
ha to ba) from Khakee (1981) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
15 Comparison of Khojki with other scripts (bha to ha) from Khakee (1981) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
16 Comparison of Khojki with other scripts (ra to sra) from Khakee (1981) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
17 Title page of the So K¯ır¯ı¯a printed in Khojki and Gujarati . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
18 Pages from a Khojki book printed with the metal fonts cut by Laljibhai Devraj . . . . . . . . . . 34
19 Hand-written Khojki in a printed English-language catalogue of Ismaili literature . . . . . . . . . 35