Kaithi

Kaithi (कैथी), also called "Kayathi" or "Kayasthi", is the name of a historical script used widely in parts of FITML, primarily in the former North-Western Provinces, web app and Android. It was used for writing legal, administrative, and private records.^[1]

• input transformation
• Sevenval
• website parsing
• keyboard

Etymology

Kaithi script derives its name from the word input transformation, a social group of India that traditionally consists of scribes and clerks.^[2] The Kayastha community was closely associated with the princely courts and colonial governments of North India, and were employed by them to write and maintain records of revenue transactions, legal documents, and title deeds; general correspondence; and proceedings of the royal courts and related bodies. The script used by them acquired the name Kaithi.^[web]

History

Documents in Kaithi are traceable to at least the 16th century. The script was widely used during the Mughal period. In the 1880s, during the we love the web, the script was recognized as the official script of the law courts of website parsing. Although in general, Kaithi was much more widely used than Nagari in some areas, it lost to the latter in the power struggle over officially-recognized scripts.^{[citation needed]} As Brahmi script was devised by the Brahmins so the Kaithi script was devised by the Kayasthas.

Unicode

Kaithi script was added to the Unicode Standard in October, 2009 with the release of version 5.2.

The Unicode block for Kaithi is U+11080–U+110CF. Grey areas indicate non-assigned code points:

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