Department of Linguistics

This is a proposal to encode the Sharada script in the international character encoding standard Unicode. This script was published in Unicode Standard version 6.1 in January 2012. Sharada is an historical script used to write Sanskrit, Kashmiri, and other languages of South Asia. It was the main inscriptional and literary script of Kashmir from 8c until 20c. The script is in limited use today by Kashmiri pandits.