devanagari
देवनागरी
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noun
As mentioned earlier, from Hindustani have emerged two literary languages, Hindi in Devanagari script with literary and vocabulary borrowings from Sanskrit and Urdu in modified Arabic script with borrowings from Persian.
the alphabet used for Sanskrit, Hindi, and other Indian languages.
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We know that they were acquainted with alphabetic writing in the form of the 'Devanagari' alphabet in which the Sanskrit of the Buddhist scriptures was written and in the form of the Phags-Pa alphabet.
Raju says his work consumes considerable time as each one of them is done with strokes of 'Devanagari' script.
The Gupta numerals evolved into the Nagari numerals, sometimes called the 'Devanagari' numerals.
Mandrake Linux includes Bengali, Gujarati, Gurmukhi, Hindi 'Devanagari' and Tamil out of the box.
Local variations to the Brahmi script led to the practice of joining of letters and words together with a line on the top of the letters, like that of today's Hindi script, and came to be known as 'Devanagari' script (script of the City of Gods).
It conforms to a modified version of the Persian script and is therefore written from right to left, whereas Hindi, which utilizes 'Devanagari' script, is written from left to right.
Newari, a Tibeto-Burman language written in the 'Devanagari' script, is spoken in the Kathmandu Valley.
Marathi is written in a type of script known as Devanagari, or a cursive form of 'Devanagari' called Modi.
I have nurtured my life's long devotion to Buddhism by learning Sanskrit, not at a University but instead by studying the holy texts of Hinduism and Advaita Vedanta in the original 'Devanagari' script.
Tandon was Vice-President of the All India Hindi Literature Conference, which held that Hindi with the 'Devanagari' script alone should be the national language.
It is written in a modified form of the 'Devanagari' script, and its literary tradition dates from medieval times.
The inscription in 'Devanagari' reads: ‘On December the 13 th, 1947, here was cremated the body of Maharishi Roerich’.
It was first published in 'Devanagari' , and later the government had it printed in the Persio-Arabic script.
The Urdu community always comes under strong pressure to change its script and to begin writing its language in the 'Devanagari' script.
As mentioned earlier, from Hindustani have emerged two literary languages, Hindi in 'Devanagari' script with literary and vocabulary borrowings from Sanskrit and Urdu in modified Arabic script with borrowings from Persian.
Instead, Pali has relied heavily on oral transmission and has traditionally been transcribed in 'Devanagari' , Singhalese, Thai, and Roman scripts (Pali Text Society).
Richard Ishida provides an excellent introduction to Indic scripts, specifically Bengali, 'Devanagari' , Gujarati, Gurmukhi, Kannada, Malayalam, Oriya, Tamil, and Telugu.
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