Editing Gurmukhi (section)

===Etymology===
[[File:Fresco artwork from Pothi-Mala, Guru Harsahai, Punjab 113.jpg|thumb|18th century fresco of a woman writing in Gurmukhi from Pothimala, [[Guru Har Sahai|Guru Harsahai]], Punjab.]]
The prevalent view among Punjabi linguists is that as in the early stages the Gurmukhī letters were primarily used by the Guru's followers, ''[[gurmukh]]s'' (literally, those who face, or follow, the Guru, as opposed to a ''[[manmukh]]''); the script thus came to be known as ''gurmukhī'', "the script of those guided by the Guru."{{sfn|Salomon|2007|p=83}}{{sfn|Bhardwaj|2016|p=14}} [[Guru Angad]] is credited in the Sikh tradition with the creation and standardization of Gurmukhi script from earlier [[Sharada script|Śāradā]]-descended scripts native to the region. It is now the standard writing script for the Punjabi language in India.<ref name="shacklexvii">{{cite book | last=Shackle | first=Christopher |author2=Mandair, Arvind-Pal Singh | year=2005 | title=Teachings of the Sikh Gurus: Selections from the Sikh Scriptures | publisher=Routledge  | location=United Kingdom | isbn = 978-0-415-26604-8 | pages=xvii–xviii}}</ref> The original Sikh scriptures and most of the historic Sikh literature have been written in the Gurmukhi script.<ref name="shacklexvii" />

Although the word Gurmukhī has been commonly translated as "from the Mouth of the Guru", the term used for the Punjabi script has somewhat different connotations. This usage of the term may have gained currency from the use of the script to record the utterances of the Sikh Gurus as scripture, which were often referred to as Gurmukhī, or from the ''mukhă'' (face, or mouth) of the Gurus. Consequently, the script that was used to write the resulting scripture may have also been designated with the same name.{{sfn|Bāhrī|2011|p=181}}

The name for the Perso–Arabic alphabet for the Punjabi language, ''[[Shahmukhi]]'', was modeled on the term ''Gurmukhi''.<ref name=bashir>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ajrEDwAAQBAJ&q=gurmukhi|title=A Descriptive Grammar of Hindko, Panjabi, and Saraiki (Volume 4 of Mouton-CASL Grammar Series)|last1=Bashir|first1=Elena|author1-link=Elena Bashir|last2=Conners|first2=Thomas J.|publisher=Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. KG|location=Berlin, Germany|year=2019|isbn=978-1-61451-225-7|page=18|access-date=2020-06-16|archive-date=2020-06-30|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200630232054/https://books.google.com/books?id=ajrEDwAAQBAJ&q=gurmukhi|url-status=live}}</ref>{{sfn|Bhardwaj|2016|p=13}}