ABSTRACT
Gujarati (Gujarātī) is a New Indo-Aryan language, which took shape from a western form of Middle Indian around the eleventh/twelfth century AD. Literature in Gujarati begins to appear in the fifteenth century, and about the same time in the closely cognate Rajasthani. But whereas Rajasthani stuck to Devanāgarī, Gujarati, for its part, developed a graceful cursive script which dispenses with the superscript bar, characteristic of Devanāgarī. The only other New Indo-Aryan script which is closely similar to the Gujarati is the Kaithi cursive script, sometimes used for writing Hindi in northern India.
