Unicode Demystified

Gujarati

The Gujarati script is used to write the Gujarati and Kacchi languages of the Gujarat region of western India.^[6] The earliest known document using Gujarati characters dates from 1592. Gujarati is the most closely related of the Northern Brahmi-derived scripts to Devanagari. Most of the letterforms are quite similar, but the script at first appears strikingly different from Devanagari (and the other scripts we've looked at so far) because the characters lack the horizontal headstroke connecting the letters of a word (a line of Gujarati type of different sizes still has the letters aligned at the top, however).

^[6] My source for Gujarati is P. J. Mistry, “Gujarati Writing,” in The World's Writing Systems, pp. 391–398.

Gujarati has 34 consonants, ...