Langdi was a

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commonly used by traders used to write

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, Punjabi, or Saraiki in the

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, known as munīm ( hi, मुनीम, ur, ), would also keep records in this script. Some scholars have claimed that Langdi is a form of

Mahajani Mahajani is a Laṇḍā mercantile script that was historically used in northern India for writing accounts and financial records in Marwari, Hindi and Punjabi. It is a Brahmic script and is written left-to-right. Mahajani refers to the Hin ...

for writing in parts of

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. Its proper connection must be more thoroughly explored.https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2011/11274-n4126-mahajani.pdf

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