Devanagari | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-10-02

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00:01:47 1 Etymology
00:02:48 2 History
00:05:30 2.1 East Asia
00:07:20 3 Letters
00:07:54 3.1 Vowels
00:11:10 3.2 Consonants
00:13:24 3.3 Vowel diacritics
00:14:27 3.4 Conjunct consonants
00:15:33 3.5 Accent marks
00:17:18 3.6 Punctuation
00:17:40 3.7 Old forms
00:18:24 3.8 Numerals
00:18:38 3.9 Fonts
00:18:47 4 Transliteration
00:20:13 4.1 Hunterian system
00:20:30 4.2 ISO 15919
00:20:48 4.3 IAST
00:21:19 4.4 Harvard-Kyoto
00:22:08 4.5 ITRANS
00:22:49 4.5.1 Velthuis
00:23:45 4.6 ALA-LC Romanisation
00:24:11 4.7 WX
00:24:39 5 Encodings
00:25:35 5.1 ISCII
00:25:44 5.2 Unicode
00:26:25 6 Devanagari keyboard layouts
00:26:51 6.1 InScript layout
00:27:01 6.2 Typewriter
00:27:32 6.3 Phonetic
00:27:52 7 See also



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Devanagari ( DAY-və-NAH-gər-ee; देवनागरी,  IAST: Devanāgarī, Sanskrit pronunciation: [deːʋɐˈnaːɡɐɽiː]), also called Nagari (Nāgarī, नागरी), is a left-to-right abugida (alphasyllabary), based on the ancient Brāhmī script, used in the Indian subcontinent. It was developed in ancient India from the 1st to the 4th century CE, and was in regular use by the 7th century CE. The Devanagari script, composed of 47 primary characters including 14 vowels and 33 consonants, is one of the most adopted writing systems in the world, being used for over 120 languages. The ancient Nagari script for Sanskrit had two additional consonantal characters.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 written from left to right, has a strong preference for symmetrical rounded shapes within squared outlines, and is recognisable by a horizontal line that runs along the top of full letters. In a cursory look, the Devanagari script appears different from other Indic scripts such as Bengali, Odia, or Gurmukhi, but a closer examination reveals they are very similar except for angles and structural emphasis.Among the languages using it – as either their only script or one of their scripts – are Pāḷi, Sanskrit, Hindi, Nepali, Sherpa, Prakrit, Apabhramsha, Awadhi, Bhojpuri, Braj Bhasha, Chhattisgarhi, Haryanvi, Magahi, Nagpuri, Rajasthani, Bhili, Dogri, Marathi, Maithili, Kashmiri, Konkani, Sindhi, Bodo, Nepalbhasa, Mundari and Santali.  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.