Devanagari script

E6056

abugida writing system

Devanagari script is an abugida writing system used for several major South Asian languages, including Hindi, Marathi, Nepali, and Sanskrit.

Aliases (5)

Statements (51)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	abugida → writing system →
associatedReligion	Buddhism → Hinduism → Jainism →
derivedFrom	Gupta script → Nagari script →
direction	left-to-right →
hasApproximateLetterCount	47 basic characters →
hasConsonantCount	33 consonants (traditional count) →
hasFeature	conjunct consonant ligatures → distinct signs for anusvara and visarga → horizontal headline (shirorekha) → inherent vowel /a/ in consonant letters → use of virama (halant) to suppress inherent vowel → use of vowel diacritics (matras) →
hasUnicodeBlock	Devanagari → Devanagari Extended → Devanagari Extended-A →
hasVowelCount	14 vowels (traditional count) →
hasVowelLetters	independent vowels →
hasVowelSigns	dependent vowel signs →
historicalUsage	Classical Sanskrit texts →
ISO15924Code	Deva →
primaryUsageRegion	Bhutan → Fiji → India → Nepal →
scriptFamily	Brahmic scripts →
standardFormOf	Modern Hindi orthography → Modern Marathi orthography → Standard Nepali orthography →
usedForLanguage	Bodo → Dogri → Hindi → Konkani → Maithili → Marathi → Nepali → Sanskrit → Sanskritized Prakrits → Santhali → Sindhi →
usedForLanguageFamily	Indo-Aryan languages → Indo-Iranian languages →
writingDirection	horizontal →
writingSystemScope	used in South Asia →
writingSystemStatus	official script of Hindi in India → official script of Marathi in Maharashtra, India → official script of Nepali in Nepal →
writingSystemType	alphasyllabary →

Referenced by (69)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Ahirani → Bhojpuri → Dhundhari → Dogri → Dravidian languages → Gandhi ("Devanagari") → Gondi ("Devanagari") → Harauti → Hindi ("Devanagari numeral system") → Indians ("Devanagari") → Indo-Aryan languages ("Devanagari") → Khari Boli → Kurukh → Marathi language → Mithila region → Nepali → Nicobarese languages → Pandey ("Devanagari") → Sanskrit → Santhali → Shekhawati → Sindhi → Sindhi people ("Devanagari") → Varhadi →	writingSystem
Andaman Hindi ("Devanagari") → Banga ("Devanagari") → Dasbodh ("Devanagari") → Dnyaneshwari ("Devanagari") → Marathi people ("Devanagari") → Om ("Devanagari") → Pandey ("Devanagari") → Partha ("Devanagari") → Rajya Sabha ("Devanagari") → Satyameva Jayate ("Devanagari") → Vedas ("Devanagari") →	script
Bodo language → Fiji Hindi → Malvani → Nepali ("Devanagari alphabet") → Nicobarese → Sarnami Hindustani → South-Central Dravidian ("Devanagari") →	hasWritingSystem
Devanagari Extended-A ("Devanagari") → Odia script → Tirhuta script →	relatedTo
Gujarati → Gujarati script →	derivedFrom
Brahmi script ("Devanagari") → Nagari script →	hasDescendant
Chhattisgarhi ("Devanagari") → Subhas ("Devanagari") →	hasScript
Lhotshampa ("Devanagari") → Maharaja ("Devanagari") →	scriptUsed
Indo-European language family → Indo-Iranian languages →	writingSystemsInclude
Nagari script ("Devanagari") →	developedInto
Hindi Belt ("Devanagari") →	dominantScript
Nagari script ("Nāgarī script") →	hasAlternateName
Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu ("Devanagari") →	hasOfficialScript
Devanagari script ("Devanagari") →	hasUnicodeBlock
Brahmic scripts →	influenced
Kashmiris →	modernScript
State Emblem of India ("Devanagari") →	mottoScript
Indian rupee ("Devanagari") →	scriptOnBanknotes
Sanskrit ("Devanagari") →	scriptStandard
Sindhi ("Sindhi-Devanagari script") →	scriptVariant
Punjabi people →	usesScript
Bhojpuri ("Devanagari") →	usesScriptCurrently
Sino-Tibetan languages ("Devanagari") →	writingSystemUsed