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This is an extra collection of Indic fonts for Slackware Linux.

The scripts that are supported by this collection are

  1. Gondi
  2. Dogri
  3. Toto
  4. Warang citi
  5. Nag Mundari
  6. Mro
  7. Toto
  8. Sora Sompeng
  9. Ol Chiki
  10. Takri
  11. Tulu
  12. Saurashtra

Gondi is a Dravidian language and is spoken in the state of Telangana apart from Eastern Maharastra, South Eastern Madhya Pradesh and Chhattishgarh.

Masaram Gondi is a Unicode block containing characters from the Masaram Gondi script, which was designed for writing Gondi in 1918 by Munshi Mangal Singh Masaram, a Gond from Balaghat district of Madhya Pradesh, India.

Dogri is spoken by 2.6 million people in Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir

The Takri script used in Sirmour in Himachal Pradesh and in the adjacent region of Jaunsar-Bawar in Uttarakhand has some distinction.

The Mro (also called Mru or Murong) script is used for writing the Mro language,spoken in the Chittagong Hill Tracts of Bangladesh.

Nag Mundari is the writing system created for the Mundari language, spoken in eastern India Community elder and author Rohidas Singh Nag invented and published in late 1980 the alphabetic writing system Mundari Bani, which has seen limited but increasing use in literature, education, and computing.

Warang Citi also written Varang Kshiti or Barang Kshiti is a writing system invented by Lako Bodra for the Ho language spoken in East India. It is used in primary and adult education and in various publications.

The Sorang Sompeng script is used to write Sora, a Munda language with 300,000 speakers in India. The script was created by Mangei Gomango in 1936 and is used in religious contexts.The Sora language is also written in the Latin, Odia, and Telugu scripts

Toto is a Sino-Tibetan language spoken on the border of India and Bhutan, by the tribal Toto people in Totopara, West Bengal along the border with Bhutan. It is also spoken in Subhapara, Dhunchipara, and Panchayatpara hillocks on India-Bhutan border in Jalpaiguri district, West Bengal

Tulu is spoken in the Indian state of Karnataka and Kerala by about 1,846,427 people according to 2011 census.

The Ol Chiki script, also known as Ol Chemetʼ (Santhali: ol 'writing', chemetʼ 'learning'), Ol Ciki, Ol, and sometimes as the Santhali alphabet invented by Pandit Raghunath Murmu in the year 1925, is the official writing system for Santhali, an Austroasiatic language recognized as an official regional language in India. It is one of the official scripts of the Indian Republic.

Saurashtra is an Indo-Aryan language spoken primarily by the Saurashtrians of Southern India who migrated from the Lata region of present-day Gujarat to south of Vindhyas in the Middle Ages. Saurashtra, an offshoot of Sauraseni Prakrit,once spoken in the Saurashtra region of Gujarat, is now chiefly spoken in various places of Tamil Nadu and are mostly concentrated in Madurai, Thanjavur and Salem Districts. Census of India places the language under Gujarati. Official figures show the number of speakers as 247,702 (2011 census).