Shahmukhi

Shahmukhí is an alphabet traditionally used in Pakistan, Afghanistan and India. Form of the traditional Arab alphabet recognized by the Sikh and Muslim population as a way of reciting the Guru Guru Granth Sahib (literary work respected and praised by Sikhism internationally), and its various currents; in comparison of the gurmukhi (alphabet of the Panyabí language used solely for religious purposes). Traditionally Sikhism is a faith of Indo-Persian origin. In Muslim India, Pakistan and the southern region of Afghanistan, the Shahmukhí is used through the transliteration of the Gurmukhi (Punjabi language) to Urdu, so the Urdu population can also recognize phonetically original concepts of the gurmukhi without modifying the central idea; although it should not be denied that there is widely a complete, both phonetic and written form of translation, from Gurmukhí to Classical Arabic and Urdu Alphabet, known as al-Shahi which is mainly spoken within the Sikh community of Pakistan.

In these countries, the Shahmukhí is read for religious purposes only. A minority of Sikh Muslim settlers speak this dialect within a community for purely religious purposes, but they do not use it as part of their common or family slang. Basically the Shahmukjí originated to allow the Sikh population descended from families who preached Islam, could speak the sacred dialect without complications. Shahmukhi alphabet

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