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The Khema script, also known as Gurung Khema, Khema Phri, Khema Lipi, is used to write the
Gurung language Gurung (Devanagari: ), also known as Tamu Kyi (, ; Tibetan: ) or Tamu Bhāṣā (, ), is a Sino-Tibetan language spoken by the Gurung people of Nepal. The total number of all Gurung speakers in Nepal was 227,918 in 1991 and 325,622 in 2011. Th ...
. The Language Commission of Nepal recognizes Khema as the official script of Gurung.


Usage

Devdaha Mother Tongues Academy, located in Rupandehi, teaches Gurung in the Khema script. The Khema script is used in
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to officially write the Gurung language.


Unicode

The Khema script was added to the
Unicode Unicode or ''The Unicode Standard'' or TUS is a character encoding standard maintained by the Unicode Consortium designed to support the use of text in all of the world's writing systems that can be digitized. Version 16.0 defines 154,998 Char ...
Standard in September, 2024 with the release of version 16.0. The Unicode block for Khema, called Gurung Khema, is U+16100–U+1613F:


See also

*
Gurung language Gurung (Devanagari: ), also known as Tamu Kyi (, ; Tibetan: ) or Tamu Bhāṣā (, ), is a Sino-Tibetan language spoken by the Gurung people of Nepal. The total number of all Gurung speakers in Nepal was 227,918 in 1991 and 325,622 in 2011. Th ...


References


External links

* Writing systems of Nepal Brahmic scripts {{brahmic-stub