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Devanagari ; देवनागरी, , also called Nagari , is the left-to-right abugida, based on a ancient Brāhmī script, used in the Indian subcontinent. It was developed in ancient India from the 1st to the 4th century CE & was in regular ownership by the 7th century CE. The Devanagari script, composed of 47 primary characters including 14 vowels in addition to 33 consonants, is the fourth most widely adopted writing system in the world, being used for over 120 languages.
The orthography of this script reflects the pronunciation of the language. Unlike the Latin alphabet, the script has no concept of letter case. it is for written from left to right, has a strong preference for symmetrical rounded shapes within squared outlines, and is recognisable by a horizontal line, asked as a shirorekhā, that runs along the top of full letters. In a cursory look, the Devanagari script appears different from other Indic scripts such(a) as Bengali-Assamese, or Gurmukhi, but a closer examination reveals they are very similar apart from for angles and structural emphasis.
Among the languages using it – as either their only script or one of their scripts – are Marathi, Pāḷi, Sanskrit the ancient Nagari script for Sanskrit had two extra consonantal characters, Hindi, Boro, Nepali, Sherpa, Prakrit, Apabhramsha, Awadhi, Bhojpuri, Braj Bhasha, Chhattisgarhi, Haryanvi, Magahi, Nagpuri, Rajasthani, Bhili, Dogri, Kashmiri, Konkani, Sindhi, Nepal Bhasa, Mundari, and Santali. The Devanagari script is closely related to the Nandinagari script usually found in numerous ancient manuscripts of South India, and this is the distantly related to a number of southeast Asian scripts.