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{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2023}}{{Short description|Historical script used in the Maratha Empire}}

{{Infobox writing system

| name = Mōḍī

| native_name = मोडी / {{Script|Modi|𑘦𑘻𑘚𑘲}}

| sample = Dnyaneshwari_Verse_In_Modi_Script.png

| caption = A verse from the ''[[Dnyaneshwari]]'' in the {{IAST|Mōḍī}} script

| time = c. 1200 orCE c.century- present 1600&ndash;c. R1950<ref name=ty>{{Cite web |url=http://www.typoday.in/2014/spk_papers14/rajendrathakre-typo14.pdf |title=Reviving the Modi Script |date=28 February 2014 |website=Typoday |last=Bhimraoji |first=Rajendra |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141207082007/http://www.typoday.in/2014/spk_papers14/rajendrathakre-typo14.pdf |archive-date=7 December 2014}}</ref><ref name="prop"/><br /><small>(Two different origin theories)</small>

| type = [[Abugida]]

| fam1 = [[Proto-Sinaitic script]]^[a]

| fam2 = [[Phoenician alphabet]]^[a]

| fam3 = [[Aramaic alphabet]]^[a]

| footnotes = [a] The Semitic origin of the Brahmic scripts is not universally agreed upon.

| fam4 = [[Brahmi script|Brahmi]]

| fam5 = [[Gupta script|Gupta]]

| fam6 = [[Siddhaṃ script|Siddhaṃ]]

| fam7 = [[Nāgarī script|Nāgarī]]

| sisters = [[Gujarati alphabet|Gujarati]], [[Kaithi script|Kaithi]], [[Devanagari]], [[Nandinagari]]

| languages = '''Primary'''<br />[[Marathi language|Marathi]]<br />'''Sometimes'''<br />[[Konkani language|Konkani]], [[Hindi]], [[Gujarati language|Gujarati]], [[Kannada]], [[Telugu language|Telugu]] and [[Sanskrit]]<ref name=ty/><ref name=prop/>

| iso15924 = Modi

| unicode = [https://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U11600.pdf U+11600&ndash;U+1165F]<br />

[https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2011/11212r2-n4034-modi.pdf Final&nbsp;Accepted&nbsp;Script&nbsp;Proposal]

| note = none

}}

{{brahmic}}

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'''Modi''' ({{lang-mr|मोडी}}, {{IAST|Mōḍī}}, {{IPA-mr|moːɖiː}})<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KnPoYxrRfc0C&q=%22mudiya+script%22&pg=PA3898 |title=Encyclopaedia of Indian Literature Volume V|last=Sahitya |first=Akademi |publisher=Sahitya Akademi New Delhi |year=1992 |isbn=81-260-1221-8 |page=3898}}</ref> is a script used to write the [[Marathi language]], which is the primary language spoken in the state of [[Maharashtra]], [[western India|India]]. There are multiple theories concerning its origin.<ref>{{Cite web |date=24 October 2017 |title=Krishnaji Mhatre – A life dedicated to Modi |url=https://mumbaimirror.indiatimes.com/mumbai/other/krishnaji-mhatre-a-life-dedicated-to-modi/articleshow/61192544.cms |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200810173220/https://mumbaimirror.indiatimes.com/mumbai/other/krishnaji-mhatre-a-life-dedicated-to-modi/articleshow/61192544.cms |archive-date=10 August 2020 |access-date=10 August 2020 |website=Mumbai Mirror |language=en}}</ref> The Modi script was used alongside the [[Devanagari|Devanagari script]] to write Marathi until the 20th century when the [[Balbodh]] style of the [[Devanagari|Devanagari script]] was promoted as the standard writing system for Marathi.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Sohoni |first=Pushkar |date=May 2017 |title=Marathi of a Single Type: The demise of the Modi script |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/modern-asian-studies/article/marathi-of-a-single-type-the-demise-of-the-modi-script/184EC94C15CF5A58E6CD0CA39A83DB64 |journal=Modern Asian Studies |language=en |volume=51 |issue=3 |pages=662–685 |doi=10.1017/S0026749X15000542 |s2cid=148081127 |issn=0026-749X}}</ref>

== Etymology ==