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Central India is inhabited by Gondi people, an ethnic group that speaks the Gondi language. In order to write in Gondi, Munshi Mangal Singh Masaram designed a special writing system in 1918. It hasn't gained any popularity, although it's still used in both handwriting and typography. The Gondi people prefer [block:telugu Telugu], [block:devanagari Devanagari] or Gundjala. The Russian Wikipedia says that the Gondi language is oral, so it doesn't have a written form.
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The Masaram Gondi script is similar to other Indian scripts. It is an abugida written from left to right. Each consonant character has a horizontal line on the right, which indicates the sound /a/. You can add a sign of another vowel to change the syllable, or remove it to get a separate consonant. For similar purposes, the icons of virama and halanta are used.
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The block also contains its own set of decimal digits. Masaram Gondi punctuation is no different from Devanagari and uses the same punctuation marks. |