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Handwritten Gurmukhi . . . Now that you know how to write Gurmukhi in a Gurbani style, you can develop your own handwriting. Like handwriting with Roman characters, there are some differences and, like handwriting with Roman characters, they relate...

Practice makes perfect . . . Start off by learning the alphabet, five letters at a time. Write them down and get the shapes, sounds and names correct before moving onto the next five - you don't have to be perfect, look at a score of 4/5 to start with. Then do a...

Introduction . . . We've looked at the alphabet and the vowel sounds. Now, there are only a few markings left to learn (apart from the numbers). Although they are all covered by this part of the site, they effectively fall into three groups: Nasalisation; Emphasis...

The graphics you need for this page are visible at this link http://www.billie.grosse.is-a-geek.com/vowels.html So far, we have looked at the 35 letters. Now, we concentrate on vowels and apart from the first three, they all have an implicit, very short 'a' after them. We look at: Use...

This is the first of several web pages about learning Gurmukhi. There are a lot of pictures and interactive graphics on the page that do not copy well into the SPN forum software. So I have inserted links to the interactive images in the essay. Make sure to click on each one to get the full...