Devanagari script

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

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Predicate Object
instanceOf abugida
writing system
associatedReligion Buddhism
Hinduism
Jainism
derivedFrom Brahmi script
surface form: 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 script self-linksurface differs
surface form: 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

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Lok (people) scriptUsed Devanagari script
this entity surface form: Devanagari
Kurux hasWritingSystem Devanagari script
Malto language writingSystem Devanagari script
Sadri script Devanagari script
this entity surface form: Devanagari
Bulandshahr hasWritingSystem Devanagari script
this entity surface form: Devanagari
Kurukh people scriptUsed Devanagari script
this entity surface form: Devanagari
Mehta isWrittenInScript Devanagari script
this entity surface form: Devanagari
Kurmali language script Devanagari script
this entity surface form: Devanagari
Kisan language writingSystem Devanagari script
Malto people script Devanagari script
this entity surface form: Devanagari
Dardic languages writingSystem Devanagari script
Central Indo-Aryan languages writingSystem Devanagari script
Sourashtra language script Devanagari script