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Gurmukhi

The Gurmukhi script, derived from the Landa alphabet[?] and standardized by Guru Angad Dev in the 16th century, was designed to write the Punjabi language.

External reference:

http://www.omniglot.com/writing/gurmuki.htm
Gurmukhi - Test for Unicode support in Web browsers (http://www.hclrss.demon.co.uk/unicode/gurmukhi)
Unicode script chart (http://www.unicode.org/unicode/reports/tr24/charts/ScriptChart35)

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