But the popularisation of a particular script over another is a political decision, driven by the context in which the language is standardised. We grow up linking the spoken language with a particular script to an extent that, over the years, this link seems ‘natural’. But this story omits many waves of significant influences that other languages, like Arabic and Persian, have had on Gujarati. That Gujarati is taught to be written in a variant of Devanagari script today, seemed to me like a natural extension of this origin story. Growing up in Gujarat, I was taught that Gujarati language traces its origin to Sanskrit language. Some of these are written in Arabic script and spoken in both India and Pakistan.
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