what is Mahajani accounting system? what are it's characteristics
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Mahajani is a Laṇḍā mercantile script that was historically used in northern India for writing accounts and financial records in Marwari, Hindi and Punjabi.[1] It is a Brahmic script and is written left-to-right. Mahajani refers to the Hindi word for 'bankers', also known as 'sarrafi' or 'kothival' (merchant).
It has fewer vowels than most North Indian scripts, and the use of them is optional. The vowels i and u can represent both their short and long forms in addition to diphthongs and related vowels. Since vowels are optional, they must be interpreted in context for most Mahajani texts. There are no special conjunct consonant forms, and there are no viramas to indicate them. Nasalization, if indicated, is typically represented by 'na'. It also has various fraction marks, accounting marks, and textual organization marks, to indicate paragraph and word spacing, and abbreviation, punctuation, and space marks.
Mahajani is a Laṇḍā mercantile script that was historically used in northern India for writing accounts and financial records in Marwari, Hindi and Punjabi.[1] It is a Brahmic script and is written left-to-right. Mahajani refers to the Hindi word for 'bankers', also known as 'sarrafi' or 'kothival' (merchant).
Mahajani
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Mahajani characters
Type
Abugida
Languages
Hindi, Punjabi, and Marwari
Parent systems
Proto-Sinaitic alphabet[a]
Phoenician alphabet[a]
Aramaic alphabet[a]
Brāhmī
Gupta
Śāradā
Landa
Mahajani
Direction
Left-to-right
ISO 15924
Mahj, 314
Unicode alias
Mahajani
Unicode range
U+11150–U+1117F
Final Accepted Scri