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The official typeface for road signs in India is Transport. [2] Though sometimes, road signs may use hand-painted fonts, but some road signs in India also unofficially use Arial or Highway Gothic. Most urban roads and state highways have signs in the state language and English. National highways have signs in the state language, Hindi and English.
The nuqta, and the phonological distinction it represents, is sometimes ignored in practice; e.g., क़िला qilā being simply spelled as किला kilā.In the text Dialect Accent Features for Establishing Speaker Identity, Manisha Kulshreshtha and Ramkumar Mathur write, "A few sounds, borrowed from the other languages like Persian and Arabic, are written with a dot (bindu or nuqtā).
Mandatory signs are road signs that are used to set the obligations of all traffic that uses a specific area of road. Most mandatory road signs are circular in shape and may use white symbols on a blue background with a white border, or black symbols on a white background with a red border, although the latter is also associated with prohibitory signs.
Traffic signs or road signs are signs erected at the side of or above roads to give instructions or provide information to road users. The earliest signs were simple wooden or stone milestones . Later, signs with directional arms were introduced, for example the fingerposts in the United Kingdom and their wooden counterparts in Saxony .
Warning sign at the fence of a military area in Turkey, in Turkish, English, French and German. A bilingual sign (or, by extension, a multilingual sign) is the representation on a panel (sign, usually a traffic sign, a safety sign, an informational sign) of texts in more than one language.
Shape and colour of sign types Sign type [1] Meaning Colour (per ISO 3864-4) [7] Shape [7] Example Prohibition sign: Must not do: Red: Circle with diagonal line: No open flame Mandatory sign: Must do: Blue: Circle: Use hearing protection Warning sign: Warn of hazard: Yellow: Equilateral triangle with rounded corners: Explosive materials Safe ...
Regulatory traffic signs within the United States must comply with the federal Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices (MUTCD) or the State MUTCD, depending on the state in which the sign is installed. These signs typically have a white background with black or red legends (legends include text, symbols, graphics not part of the background ...
Challan or Chalan is a common Hindi word (चालान, cālān) that has become an Indian English technical word used officially in many professional, especially financial transactions. It usually means an official form or receipt of acknowledgement or other kind of proof document , piece of paperwork, police citation , etc.