Devanagari
Altogether, these languages have over 615 million speakers. In addition, numerous minority languages in India and Nepal are written in Devanagari, including Bodo, Gondi, Bhojpuri, Braj Bhasha and Newari. Since Devanagari is used across such a wide range of languages, the script includes extended vowel and consonant characters, alternate character forms, and additional vowel and consonant diacritics. Today, it is used across India for administrative purposes. It is also commonly used in films produced by Bollywood, India’s Hindi-language cinema industry. Read this extensive Essay about the history of the Devanagari script
Script Classification | Abugida |
Letter Case | None |
Commonly Used Quotation Marks | “...” , ‘...’ |
Numerals | 0–9: ० १ २ ३ ४ ५ ६ ७ ८ ९ [Widely used with regional variations, alongside Hindu-Arabic numerals] |
Earliest Recorded Usage | c. 7th century CE |
Used to Write | Hindi, Nepali, Marathi, Konkani, Gondi, Bodo, Bhojpuri, Braj Bhasha, Newari, Sanskrit, etc. |
Added to Unicode | Version 1.0 (1991) |
- PingPing18 styles
- November StencilNovember Stencil9 styles
- NovemberNovember18 styles
- November CompressedNovember Compressed18 styles
- November CondensedNovember Condensed18 styles
- OctoberOctober18 styles
- October CompressedOctober Compressed18 styles
- October CondensedOctober Condensed18 styles
- LavaLava12 styles
- Greta SansGreta Sans20 styles
- Greta Sans CompressedGreta Sans Compressed18 styles
- Greta Sans CondensedGreta Sans Condensed20 styles
- Greta Sans ExtendedGreta Sans Extended22 styles
- Fedra SansFedra Sans10 styles