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Gurmukhi is the ecclesiastical script of the Sri Guru Granth Sahib Ji, the eternal Guru of the Sikhs.
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Gurmukhi and is
Gurmukhi (, ) is the most common script used for writing the Punjabi language in India.
The name Gurmukhi is derived from the Old Punjabi term " guramukhī ", meaning " from the mouth of the Guru ".
Gurmukhi is primarily used in the Punjab state of India where it is the sole official script for all official and judicial purpose.
This theory is confusing as Gurmukhi characters have a very close resemblance with " Siddh Matrika " inscriptions found at some sacred wells in Punjab as G. B Singh notes, one being the hathur inscription dating to just before the brith of Guru Nanak.
The opinion given by traditional scholars for this is that as the Sikh holy writings, before they were written down, were uttered by the Gurus, they came to be known as Gurmukhi or the " Utterance of the Guru ".
The first is ੧, the digit " 1 " in Gurmukhi signifying the singularity of the creator.
* In the Sikhism religion it is the holy symbol consisting of the three Gurmukhi letters and is used as " हर ि" " ਹਰ ਿ".
* In the Ravidasi religion it is the holy symbol consisting of the three Gurmukhi letters with the character for " i " being made into a flame.
Sabeer Bhatia ( Gurmukhi: ਸਬ ੀ ਰ ਭ ਾ ਟ ੀ ਆ ) ( born December 30, 1968 ) is an Indian American entrepreneur who co-founded the Hotmail email service and Jaxtr.
Eastern ( Indian ) Punjabi is written in Gurmukhi script, with more influence by Sanskrit and Hindi.
The etymology of the term ' gurdwara ' is from the words ' Gur ( ਗ ੁ ਰ )' ( a reference to the Sikh Gurus ) and ' Dwara ( ਦ ੁ ਆਰ ਾ)' ( gateway in Gurmukhi ), together meaning ' the gateway through which the Guru could be reached '.
* In Punjabi ( Gurmukhi script ), the name is written as ਸ ਿੰ ਘ and pronounced as Singh.
Shahmukhi (, Gurmukhi: ਸ ਼ਾ ਹਮ ੁ ਖ ੀ, literally " from the King's mouth ") is a Punjabi variant of the Perso-Arabic script.
The Shahmukhi script was first used by the Sufi poets of the Punjab ; it became an official writing style for the Muslim populace of the Pakistani province of Punjab following the Partition of India, while the largely Sikh province of Punjab, India adopted the Gurmukhi script is to record the Punjabi language.
The text of Nasta ' aliq is written in the right to left direction and from right page to left page ; but Gurmukhi is written from left to right.
Since the Gurmukhi alphabet is phonetic, any loanwords which contained pre-existing sounds were more easily transliterated without the need for characters modified with subscript dots beneath.
Gurmukhi script is also called ' Paintis Akhri ' because it contains thirty-five letters.
It is written in the Braj Bhasha language with the Gurmukhi script.
" This Granth is very difficult, and is composed in the Gurmukhi dialect in several kinds of verses.
Simran is a commonly used term as a verb in Gurmukhi, which refers to ' meditating ' of the Nām.
Gurmukhi and script
An abugida derived from the Laṇḍā script and ultimately descended from Brahmi, Gurmukhi was standardized by the second Sikh guru, Guru Angad Dev Ji, in the 16th century.
Siddh Matrika seems to have been the prevalent script for devotional writings in Punjab right up to the founding of Sikh faith, after which its successor Gurmukhi appears.
Tarlochan Singh Bedi ( 1999 ) writes that the Gurmukhi script developed in the 10-14th centuries from the Devasesha stage of the Sharada script the intermediate phase being Siddha Matrika, before the final evolution into Gurmukhi.
The regional Sharada script evolves from this stage till the 14th century, when it starts to appear in the form of Gurmukhi.
The usage of Gurmukhi letters in Guru Granth Sahib meant that the script developed its own orthographical rules.
In the following epochs, Gurmukhi became the prime script applied for literary writings of the Sikhs.
Most languages are written using a script specific to them, such as Assamese with Assamese / Axomiya, Bengali with Bengali, Punjabi with Gurmukhi, Oriya with Utkal Lipi, Gujarati with Gujarati, etc.
* Akas Barmala, Urdu poetry of Zahid Laeeq in Gurmukhi script by Ed.
Along with these main functions, the gurdwaras around the world also serve the Sikh community in many other ways including, libraries of Sikh literature, schools to teach children Gurmukhi ( Sikh script ), the Sikh scriptures and charitable work in the wider community on behalf of Sikhs.
One must study Gurmukhi script and be able to read Gurbani to understand the meaning of the text.
Many gurdwaras also have other facilities for Sikhs to learn more about their religion, such as libraries, complexes for courses in Gurmukhi ( Sikh script ), Sikhism and Sikh scriptures, meeting rooms, and room-and-board accommodation for those who need it.
These scripts in turn gave rise to many of the most important scripts of India, including Devanagari ( the most common script used for writing Sanskrit since the 19th Century ), the Gurmukhi script for Punjabi Language and the Tibetan script.
Gurmukhi was the script used for the transcription.
Gurmukhi and Sri
Nām Japō ( Gurmukhi ਨ ਾ ਮ ਜਪ ੋ), or Naam Japna, refers to the meditation, vocal singing of hymns from the Sri Guru Granth Sahib or of the various Names of God, especially the chanting of the word Waheguru, which means " Wonderful Lord ".
Gurmukhi and Guru
* Search Guru Granth Sahib in English, Gurmukhi and 52 other languages
Guru Amar Das ( Gurmukhi: ਗ ੁ ਰ ੂ ਅਮਰ ਦ ਾ ਸ ; 5 May 1479 – 1 September 1574 ) was the third of the Ten Gurus of Sikhism and was given the title of Sikh Guru on 26 March 1552.
* Gurmukhi – The written form of Punjabi used in the Sikh scriptures propagated by Guru Nanak and Guru Angad.
He was the first person to standardize the typeset for Gurmukhi script, publish Guru Granth Sahib and Bhai Kahn Singh ’ s Mahan Kosh, the first Punjabi dictionary by using modern technique at his Sudarshan Printing Press.
Gurmukhi and Sahib
* Jaap Sahib in Gurmukhi, English and its Transliteration by Sikh Research and Education Center
* Sukhmani Sahib Gurmukhi Roman-Bani in Punjabi and English
Gurmukhi and .
Gurmukhi has been adapted to write other languages, such as Braj Bhasha, Khariboli ( and other Hindustani dialects ), Sanskrit and Sindhi.
Pritam Singh ( 1992 ) has also traced the origins of Gurmukhi to the Siddha Matrika.
Indian epigraphists call this stage Devasesha, while Bedi prefers the name Pritham Gurmukhi or Proto-Gurmukhi.
The Gurmukhi alphabet contains thirty-five letters.
There are sets of glyphs for writing numbers in base 10, such as the Devanagari and Gurmukhi of India in which the primes listed above are not strobogrammatic at all.
# Ability to read and write a simple sentence and sign one ’ s name in the English language in the case of a European, in either English or Fijian in the case of a Fijian, and for an Indian either in English, Hindi, Urdu, Tamil, Telugu, Gurmukhi, Gujarati or Malayalam.
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