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adj
Of the Dogra script or of a Dogra alphabet.
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Usage: not-comparable
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name
An abugida script (nearly extinct) used to write Dogri, a language originating in India.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
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noun
A member of an Indo-Aryan ethnolinguistic group living primarily in the Indian union territory of Jammu and Kashmir and speaking the Dogri language.
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History
From Dogri डोगरा (ḍogrā), from Sanskrit द्विगर्त (dvigarta). The script was officially referred to as Sanskrit द्विगर्त अक्षर (dvigarta akṣara, “Dogra letters”). Another indigenous name for the script is Dogri [script needed] (dogra akkharor, “New Dogra letters”).
Across languages
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