Kaithi (कैथी), also called "Kayathi" or "Kayasthi", is the name of a historical script used widely in parts of North India, primarily in the former North-Western Provinces & Oudh (present-day Uttar Pradesh) and Bihar. It was used to write legal, administrative, and private records. A proposal to encode the Kaithi script in the Unicode standard was accepted for encoding by the Unicode Technical Committee at the range U+11080-110CF.
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