![]() ![]() Some other scripts, such as Gujarati, were later based on Devanagari. Its modern form came into use by the 11 th century CE, having evolved from previous scripts like Gupta and later Nagari, and ultimately based on the ancient Brahmi script. Devanagari is recognizable for being written with a horizontal line at the top of letters.ĭevanagari is one of the Brahmic scripts, which are used to write a number of languages across South and Southeast Asia. Another difference from the Greek and Latin alphabets is that Devanagari does not distinguish upper and lower case, but like those alphabets, it is written from left to right. Its 33 consonants are written in full, and vowels are represented with the use of diacritics which modify the consonant letter. Devanagari is an abugida, and unlike alphabets such as Greek or Latin, is not written with complete vowels. The standard writing system for Hindi is the Devanagari script, one of many scripts derived from the ancient Brahmi system. It’s the official language of India, English being the other official language. Spoken Hindi is generally mutually intelligible with Urdu, though Urdu is normally written with a modified Arabic script. ![]() ![]() Researchers who wish to read the final versio\n, may email the author at girish dot dalvi at gmail dot com)/Type/Annot/Popup 2001 0 R/AP>endobj2000 0 objendobj2001 0 objendobj2002 0 objendobj2003 0 objendobj2004 0 obj/Type/XObject/BBox/FormType 1>stream As of today, an improved and updated version of this article is available with the author. This article was written in 2008 as part of a doctoral thesis on Devanagari typography. ![]()
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