11 Facts About Devanagari

Devanagari, called Nagari, is a left-to-right abugida, based on the ancient Brahmi script, used in the northern Indian subcontinent.

The Devanagari script, composed of 47 primary characters including 14 vowels and 33 consonants, is the fourth most widely adopted writing system in the world, being used for over 120 languages.

The Devanagari script is closely related to the Nandinagari script commonly found in numerous ancient manuscripts of South India, and it is distantly related to a number of southeast Asian scripts.

Devanagari is a compound of "deva" and "nagari" .

Devanagari Script known as 'Script of the divine city' came from Devanagara or the 'city of the god'.

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Devanagari is part of the Brahmic family of scripts of India, Nepal, Tibet, and Southeast Asia.

Devanagari has been widely adopted across India and Nepal to write Sanskrit, Marathi, Hindi, Central Indo-Aryan languages, Konkani, Boro, and various Nepalese languages.

Devanagari added 6 new characters for sounds that did not exist in Sanskrit.

Some old-Devanagari inscriptions are found in Hindu temples of Java, such as the Prambanan temple.

When Devanagari is used for writing languages other than Sanskrit, conjuncts are used mostly with Sanskrit words and loan words.

Ubuntu Linux operating system supports several keyboard layouts for Devanagari, including Harvard-Kyoto, WX notation, Bolanagari and phonetic.