Saanjo
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Saanjo is an invented script for the Punjabi language in Pakistan developed by Ejaz Mahmood, Nadeen Asghas, and Nasir Ali.[1] It is an abugida, written from left-to-right, that consists of 38 consonants, 11 vowels, 10 combining marks, 8 punctuation marks, and one space character.[2]: 3 [1] The script was inaugurated in 3 December 2005 at Lahore.[3][4][5] It has been proposed to be included in the Universal Coded Character Set but has not been approved due to limited usage.[2] Computer fonts have been developed for the script.[6]
References
[edit]- 1 2 "Saanjo". Omniglot. Retrieved 21 September 2026.
- 1 2 Mahmood, Ejaz (27 September 2020). Initial Proposal to Encode Saanjo Script in UCS (PDF). Unicode.
- ↑ "New Punjabi language script formulated". The News. Lahore. 14 December 2005.
- ↑ "'Saanjo' script introduced". The Nation. Pakistan. 6 December 2006.
- ↑ "Inaugural Ceremony, December 03, 2005, Lahore". Saanjo. Archived from the original on 10 January 2014. Retrieved 21 September 2026.
- ↑ "'Saanjo' – the first-ever genuine script of the language of the masses (Punjabi&allied)". fmlahore.com. Archived from the original on 24 September 2015. Retrieved 21 September 2026.