{"id":365,"date":"2011-04-03T21:18:29","date_gmt":"2011-04-04T04:18:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glyphs.webfoot.com\/blog\/?p=365"},"modified":"2011-05-09T21:03:19","modified_gmt":"2011-05-10T04:03:19","slug":"sharada-800-ad-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/glyphs.webfoot.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/03\/sharada-800-ad-india\/","title":{"rendered":"Sharada &#8212; 800 AD, India"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_366\" style=\"width: 110px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/glyphs.webfoot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/sharadaK.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-366\" class=\"size-full wp-image-366\" title=\"sharadaK\" src=\"http:\/\/glyphs.webfoot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/sharadaK.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"98\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-366\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sharada &quot;k&quot;<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Sharada &#8212; also called Sarada and Sharda &#8212; is descended from <a href=\"http:\/\/glyphs.webfoot.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/02\/gupta-400-ad-india\/\">Gupta<\/a> through Kutila (a writing system so obscure that I wasn&#8217;t able to find enough to write about, and I have pretty low standards).\u00a0 Sharada&#8217;s use centered in Kashmir, but extended out into what are now neighbouring countries.<\/p>\n<p>It was commonly used from about 800 AD until around 1925 AD.\u00a0 It did change so much by around 1400 AD that it is commonly given a different name, Devasesa after that.\u00a0 Sharada doesn&#8217;t suit spoken Kashmiri particularly well, and it got pushed out by a variant of Arabic in the 20th century.\u00a0 Sharada is still used, but only a little bit for ceremonial purposes.<\/p>\n<p>Sharada, like all the Brahmi-derived scripts, is an abugida with little to differentiate it from the <a href=\"http:\/\/people.w3.org\/rishida\/scripts\/indic-overview\/\">other Brahmi-derived scripts<\/a>.\u00a0 Like essentially all of the Indic scripts, it has a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Virama\"><em>virama<\/em><\/a> &#8212; a diacritic which &#8220;kills&#8221; the vowel in the syllable, turning the character from a syllable into a consonant.\u00a0 Unlike most Brahmi-derived scripts, in Sharada, the virama is drawn to the right of the glyph that it modifies.\u00a0 (Above or below\u00a0 is more common.)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Links: <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/%C5%9A%C4%81rad%C4%81_script\">Wikipedia<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/ancientscripts.com\/sarada.html\">Ancient Scripts<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/writing\/sharda.htm\">Omniglot<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dkuug.dk\/JTC1\/SC2\/WG2\/docs\/n3245.pdf\">Unicode<\/a> proposal, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.koausa.org\/Languages\/Sharda.html\">Kashmiri Language<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sharada &#8212; also called Sarada and Sharda &#8212; is descended from Gupta through Kutila (a writing system so obscure that I wasn&#8217;t able to find enough to write about, and I have pretty low standards).\u00a0 Sharada&#8217;s use centered in Kashmir, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/glyphs.webfoot.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/03\/sharada-800-ad-india\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,16,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abugida","category-now-ceremonial","category-meh"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/glyphs.webfoot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/glyphs.webfoot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/glyphs.webfoot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/glyphs.webfoot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/glyphs.webfoot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/glyphs.webfoot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/glyphs.webfoot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/glyphs.webfoot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/glyphs.webfoot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}