Devanagari (/ˌdeɪvəˈnɑːɡəri/ DAY-və-NAH-gər-ee; देवनागरी, IAST: Devanāgarī, Sanskrit pronunciation: [deːʋɐˈnaːɡɐriː]) is an Indic script used in the northern...
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The Devanagari numerals are the symbols used to write numbers in the Devanagari script, predominantly used for northern Indian languages. They are used...
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or boxes, misplaced vowels or missing conjuncts instead of Indic text. Devanagari is an Indic script used for many Indo-Aryan languages of North India and...
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Devanagari Extended is a Unicode block containing cantilation marks for writing the Samaveda, and nasalization marks for the Devanagari script. The following...
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used for three languages of India and Nepal that in print are written in Devanagari script: Hindi, Marathi, and Nepali. These are part of a family of related...
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conjuncts observed drops sharply. Ulrich Stiehl includes a five-letter Devanagari conjunct र्त्स्न्य (rtsny) among the top 360 most frequent conjuncts found...
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Kha (ख) (खवर्ण khavarna) is the second consonant of the Devanagari abugida. It ultimately arose from the Brahmi letter 𑀔 (), after having gone through...
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Marathi language (category Languages written in Devanagari)
stones and copper plates. The Marathi version of Devanagari, called Balbodh, is similar to the Hindi Devanagari alphabet except for its use for certain words...
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Devanagari is a Unicode block containing characters for writing languages such as Hindi, Marathi, Bodo, Maithili, Sindhi, Nepali, and Sanskrit, among others...
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Official scripts of India (section Devanagari script)
officially use Devanagari, as these two states recognise Hindi as an additional official language. The Devanagari script (देवनागरी, romanized: Devanāgarī) is the...
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Devanagari Extended-A is a Unicode block containing characters for auspicious signs from Indian inscriptions and manuscripts from the 11th century onward...
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Hindi (category Languages written in Devanagari)
Hindi, is the standardised variety of the Hindustani language written in Devanagari script. It is the official language of India alongside English and the...
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listed with their Devanagari equivalents and phonetic values in IPA, valid for Sanskrit, Hindi and other modern languages that use Devanagari script, but some...
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Shravana (Devanagari: श्रवण), also known as Thiruvonam in Tamil and Malayalam (Tamil: திருவோணம், Malayalam: തിരുവോണം), is the 22nd nakshatra (Devanagari नक्षत्र)...
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script was used alongside the Devanagari script to write Marathi until the 20th century when the Balbodh style of the Devanagari script was promoted as the...
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Harvard-Kyoto (section Conversion to Devanagari)
system for transliterating Sanskrit and other languages that use the Devanāgarī script into ASCII. [citation needed] It is predominantly used informally...
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Nandinagari (section Comparison to Devanāgarī)
school of Hinduism are in Nandināgarī script. It is a sister script to Devanāgarī, which is common in other parts of India. Nāgarī comes from नगर (nagara)...
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Nuqta (section Use in Devanagari)
sometimes also spelled nukta), is a diacritic mark that was introduced in Devanagari and some other Indic scripts to represent sounds not present in the original...
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Śreṣṭha (Devanagari: श्रेष्ठ) or Śreṣṭhin (Devanagari: श्रेष्ठीन्) meaning superior, Prakritised as Seṭhī (Devanagari: सेठी), and then Śeṭ (Devanagari: शेट)...
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of the official scripts of the Indian Republic. It is a variant of the Devanagari script differentiated by the loss of the characteristic horizontal line...
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ISO 15919 (Transliteration of Devanagari and related Indic scripts into Latin characters) is one of a series of international standards for romanization...
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Sanskrit (category Languages written in Devanagari)
written in various Brahmic scripts, and in the modern era most commonly in Devanagari. Sanskrit's status, function, and place in India's cultural heritage are...
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Bodo (Devanagari) Dogri (Devanagari) English (English) Gujarati (Gujarati) Hindi (Devanagari) Kannada (Kannada) Kashmiri (Persian) Konkani (Devanagari) Maithili...
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a change in the form of one of the consonants, e.g. the half forms of Devanagari. Generally, the reading order of stacked consonants is top to bottom,...
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Mṛgaśiraṣa (also spelled Mārgaśīrṣa; Devanagari: मृगशीर्ष) is the 5th nakṣatra or lunar mansion as used in Hindu astronomy and astrology in the constellation...
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Konkani language (category Languages written in Devanagari)
Konkani (Devanagari: कोंकणी, Kannada: ಕೊಂಕಣಿ,[citation needed] Malayalam: കൊംകണീ [citation needed], Perso-Arabic: کونکنی [citation needed], Romi: Konknni...
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Devanagari, Nandinagari and other variants, and was first used to write Prakrit and Sanskrit. The term is sometimes used as a synonym for Devanagari script...
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to write the language, however, are different: Hindi is written using Devanagari, whereas Urdu is written using a modified version of the Arabic script...
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system of the Gujarati script of South Asia, which is a derivative of Devanagari numerals. It is the official numeral system of Gujarat, India. It is also...
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left and the right sides of the base consonant. Consonants (up to 4 in Devanagari) can be combined in ligatures. Special marks are added to denote the combination...
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