Eastern Nagari script

E32400

Brahmic script abugida writing system

The Eastern Nagari script is an abugida used across eastern South Asia, most prominently for writing the Bengali and Assamese languages.

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Brahmic script → abugida → writing system →
alsoKnownAs	Bengali–Assamese script → Eastern Neo-Brahmi script →
closelyRelatedTo	Odia script → Tirhuta script →
derivedFrom	Gupta script → Siddham script →
hasConsonantLetters	true →
hasDecimalDigits	true →
hasDistinctLetterFor	Assamese ৰ → Assamese ৱ → Bengali অ → Bengali ক →
hasIndependentVowelLetters	true →
hasInherentVowel	/ɔ/ →
hasLigatures	true →
hasNukta	true →
hasUnicodeBlock	Bengali →
hasVirama	true →
hasVowelDiacritics	true →
historicallyUsedFor	Sanskrit →
ISO15924Code	Beng →
region	eastern South Asia →
scriptFamily	Brahmic scripts →
subclassOf	abugida →
timePeriod	medieval to modern era →
UnicodeRange	U+0980–U+09FF →
usedFor	writing Assamese language → writing Bengali language → writing Bishnupriya Manipuri language → writing Bodo language → writing Karbi language → writing Kokborok language → writing Maithili language → writing Meitei language → writing Sylheti language →
usedIn	Assam → Bangladesh → Barak Valley → India → Mithila region → Tripura → West Bengal →
writingDirection	left-to-right →
writingSystemType	alphasyllabary →

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Assamese → Bengali → Indo-Aryan languages ("Bengali–Assamese script") →	writingSystem
Bengali script →	hasAlternateName