Devanagari (/ˌdeɪvəˈnɑːɡəri/ DAY-və-NAH-gə-ree; देवनागरी, IAST: Devanāgarī, Sanskrit pronunciation: [deːʋɐˈnaːɡɐriː]) is an Indic script used in the Indian...
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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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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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Devanagari Extended is a Unicode block containing cantillation marks for writing the Samaveda, and nasalization marks for the Devanagari script. The following...
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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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Hindi (category Languages written in Devanagari)
is the standardised variety of the Hindustani language written in the Devanagari script. It is the official language of India alongside English and 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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ISO 15919 (Transliteration of Devanagari and related Indic scripts into Latin characters) is an international standard for the romanization of Brahmic...
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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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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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Ga (Indic) (redirect from Gga (Devanagari))
(gimel, /g/) after having gone through the Gupta letter . Aryabhata used Devanagari letters for numbers, very similar to the Greek numerals, even after the...
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Konkani language (category Languages written in Devanagari)
Konkani (Devanagari: कोंकणी, Romi: Konknni, Kannada: ಕೊಂಕಣಿ, Malayalam: കൊങ്കണി, Perso-Arabic: کونکنی; IAST: Kōṅkṇī, IPA: [kõkɳi]) is an Indo-Aryan language...
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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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to write the language, however, are different: Hindi is written using Devanagari, whereas Urdu is written using a modified variant of the Perso-Arabic...
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Boro language (India) (category Languages written in Devanagari)
Constitution of India. Since 1975 the language has been written using the Devanagari script. It was formerly written using Latin and Eastern-Nagari scripts...
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adopted Devanagari for publishing Urdu periodicals and have innovated new strategies to mark Urdu in Devanagari as distinct from Hindi in Devanagari.[citation...
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on Devanagari-based and Persian-based transcription of Hindi dialects. As a result of their influence and due to the wide availability of Devanagari type...
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