Gurmukhi
The Gurmukhi, or Punjabi, script is used to write the Punjabi language of the Punjab region of northern India.[4] It evolved from the now-obsolete Lahnda script, of which someone once said, “It is convenient, with only one fault; it is seldom legible to anyone except the original writer.”[5] A revision was undertaken under the second Guru of the Sikhs, Guru Angad, in the sixteenth century, producing the modern Gurmukhi script. The name Gurmukhi attests to this effort: It means “from the mouth of the Guru.”
[4] My sources for information on Gurmukhi are Harjeet Singh Gill, “The Gurmukhi Script,” in The World's Writing Systems, pp. 395–398, and Nakanishi, pp. 50–51.
[5] The quote is from Nakanishi, p. 50, but doesn't carry an attribution ...
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