A letter in Gurmukhi script can be partitioned into three horizontal zones. The characters are connected mostly by this line called head line to form a word. It can also be noted that most of the characters have a horizontal line at the upper part. So they don't represent any sound independently except ਅ as mukta vowel. The shape, name and sound of Gurmukhi alphabet is as above: More recently, an extra character ( ਲ਼ ) was introduced. This need arose because many lone words are used in Punjabi. At one time there were only thirty-five letters in the Gurmukhi script, but later, five more letters were added in order to accommodate other sounds correctly. Sanskrit may have been one of the first languages to group the letters according to their sounds. ![]() Every letter has a particular shape, particular name and it represent a particular sound. All letters of a script have three aspects.
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