Devanagari

Also known as Deva, Deva Nagari Lipi, Hindi script, Nagari, Devanagari script, Devnagari

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Devanagari is an ancient writing system used across India and Nepal today, derived from an even older script and now used to write over 120 languages, most notably Hindi. It is one of the world's most widely used writing systems, with a structure that combines vowels and consonants in a distinctive way that has remained largely unchanged since around 1000 CE.

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Writing system.languages: Apabhramsha, Angika, Awadhi, Bajjika, Bhili, Bhojpuri, Boro, Braj, Chhattisgarhi, Dogri, Fiji Hindi, Garhwali, Haryanvi, Hindi, Kashmiri, Khandeshi, Konkani, Kumaoni, Magahi, Maithili, Marathi, Marwari, Mundari, Nagpuri, Newari, Nepali, Pāli, Pahari, Prakrit, Rajasthani, Sanskrit, Santali, Sarnami, Sherpa, Sindhi, Surjapuri, and many more.
Writing system.time: 11th century to present
Writing system.fam1: Egyptian hieroglyphs
Writing system.fam2: Proto-Sinaitic
Writing system.fam3: Phoenician
Writing system.fam4: Aramaic
Writing system.fam5: Brāhmī
Writing system.fam6: Gupta
Writing system.fam7: Siddhaṃ
Writing system.fam8: Nāgarī
Writing system.sisters: NandināgarīKaithiGujarātīMoḍī
Writing system.unicode: U+0900–U+097F Devanagari,U+A8E0–U+A8FF Devanagari Extended,U+11B00–11B5F Devanagari Extended-A,U+1CD0–U+1CFF Vedic Extensions
Writing system.iso15924: Deva
Writing system.name: Devanāgarī
Writing system.sample: Devanagari letters.svg
Writing system.caption: Devanāgarī script (vowels top three rows, consonants below)
Writing system.type: Abugida

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Het Devanāgarī (देवनागरी) of Nāgarī is een abugida (schriftsysteem), behorend tot de Brahmische schriften. Het Devanagari wordt door verschillende Indo-Arische talen gebruikt, waaronder Hindi, Nepalees en het Marathi. Het wordt sinds zijn ontstaan ook gebruikt door dode talen als Sanskriet en Prakrits, die religieuze functies vervullen in de Indiase maatschappij.

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