are often included in the vowel class. Early Saurashtra texts use a number of complex conjunct forms for writing consonant clusters. However, when the script was restructured in the 1880s these were abandoned in favour of a virama diacritic, which silences the inherent vowel of the first consonant in a cluster. The script uses a letter called upakshara, a dependent consonant sign which attaches nasals and liquids to aspirate them. That is, the letter m with upakshara attached represents [mha]. An aspirated nasal or liquid which is followed by a vowel other than [a] is written with the vowel diacritic attached to the upakshara, not to the base letter. Some analyses of the script classify aspirated nasal and liquids as a separate set of single discrete letters divided into two parts. There is a script-specific set of numbers 0–9, some of which closely resemble Devanagari digits. The widely attested Indic punctuation marks danda and double danda are used to mark the end of a sentence or clause. Latin comma, full stop and question mark symbols are also used. The letter order of Saurashtra script is similar to other Brahmic scripts. The letters are vowels, consonants, and the compound letters which are formed essentially by adding a vowel sound to a consonant. Vowels Consonants Compound letters Numerals Devanagari script Recently, Saurashtrians adopted Devanagari Script for writing. The alphabet chart containing vowels, consonants and the compound letters in Devanagari script are as follows: Limitations Firstly, Devanagari script is not developed by the Saurashtrians. Secondly, even if Devanagari script is adopted to write Saurashtra language, it will look like a bleak literature and would not be developed further, as it cannot be used among the people currently living in a State not of their own and it would not include the Dravidian features of the language. Loanwords The language itself is more similar to modern day Gujarati and Marathi as both originated from Prakrit. However, in the course of migration to South India, the language was influenced by Dravidian Languages such as Telugu and Kannada and accumulated words from those language in its vocabulary as loanwords. Magazines In recent times, the rising awareness about Saurashtra language among the young generation has led to the publication of magazines. The following are the list of magazines currently published- Bhashabhimani Sourashtratime e-journal Zeeg Sourashtra Mithran Sourashtra Samachar Literature The literature of Saurashtra is not as large