Devanagari in a sentence

Devanagari script More recently in India, Urdu speakers have adopted Devanagari for publishing Urdu periodicals and have innovated new strategies to mark Urdū in Devanagari as distinct from Hindi in Devanagari.

The Devanagari alphabet used to write Marathi is slightly different from the Devanagari alphabets of Hindi and other languages: there are a couple of additional letters in the Marathi alphabet, and Western punctuation is used.

Variants of script called Nāgarī, recognisably close to Devanagari, are first attested from the 1st century CE Rudradaman inscriptions in Sanskrit, while the modern standardised form of Devanagari was in use by about 1000 AD.

The message written in a mix of Devanagari and Roman script says, “Bade hokar feminist banunga (I will become a feminist when I grow up)”.

Your work often centred around the use of Devanagari alphabets.

Devanagari script is used to write Hindi.

Previously, the language did not have a particular script; for instance, Santals in West Bengal used the Bengali script, while those in Jharkhand and Bihar used the Devanagari script.

He saw no merit in the argument that Devanagari was acceptable across the provinces.

A third type, called abugida or alphasyllabary, is one where vowels are shown by diacritics or modifications of consonantal base letters, as in Devanagari and other South Asian scripts.

Chinese words like 剎那 chànà ( Devanagari : क्षण kṣaṇa 'instantaneous period') were borrowed from Sanskrit.

Devanagari consists of 11 vowels and 33 consonants and is written from left to right.

Devanagari is typically an abugida augmented with dedicated letters for initial vowels, though some traditions use अ as a zero consonant as the graphic base for such vowels.

Devanagari script has forty-seven primary characters, of which fourteen are vowels and thirty-three are consonants.

Etymology The Suryaprajnaptisutra, an astronomical work dating to the 3rd or 4th century BC, written in Jain Prakrit language (in Devanagari book script), c. 1500 AD.

Evans used features of Devanagari script and Pitman shorthand to create his initial abugida.

For example, the mid 8th century Pattadakal pillar in Karnataka has text in both Siddha Matrika script, and an early Telugu-Kannada script; while, the Kangra Jvalamukhi inscription in Himachal Pradesh is written in both Sharada and Devanagari scripts.

Hebrew and Arabic also indicate consonant doubling and change with diacritics; Hebrew and Devanagari use them for foreign sounds.

In the latter case, the fact of combination may be indicated by a diacritic on one of the consonants or a change in the form of one of the consonants, e.g. the half forms of Devanagari.

Introduction to Inscript Key board InScript is the standard keyboard layout for Devanagari.

In શ્ચ śca we see ચ's Devanagari equivalent of च as the squished-down second member.