Proposal to Encode Gujarati Signs for the Transliteration of Arabic in ISO / IEC 10646 Anshuman

These signs are used for the transliteration of the Arabic script into Gujarati by Ismaili Khoja communities. They are used for representing Arabic letters and signs for which correspondences do not exist in Gujarati. They were devised in the late 19th century and are standard elements of the Gujarati orthography used by the Ithnashari Khoja (“Twelver Shia”) and the Agakhani Khoja communities. The creation of the full set and the first documented printing of these signs was undertaken by the Ithnashari Khoja publisher Gulāmalī Ismāʾil of Bhavnagar, Gujarat in 1901. The signs are used in manuscripts and in printed materials, predominantly in Khoja texts such as the “Agakhani Dua” and Gujarati-script versions of the Qurʾān.