- ISO 15924
Qaaj- Family
- Indic
- Type
- abugida
- Direction
- LTR (left-to-right)
- Baseline
- hanging
- Word separation
- unspecified
- Ligatures
- unspecified
- Status
- Current
- Unicode
- true
Lahnda (also Landa) was a Brahmi-derived script used in the Punjab and Sindh regions of what are now India and Pakistan from around the 10th to the early 20th centuries. The script was known as a merchants script, although it was also used for literature and administrative purposes. Despite being widely used, Lahnda was never standardized, nor its regional variants unified, so there is significant variation in the styles used in different areas. The many varieties are sometimes classified into two broad groups, Punjabi and Sindhi. The script has now been supplanted by Arabic and Devanagari writing, although its successor, the Gurmukhi script, is widely used throughout the Punjab.
This script is not currently recognized by ISO 15924