Nagari

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Nagari is an ancient North Indian script that evolved into the modern Devanagari writing system used for languages like Hindi, Marathi, and Sanskrit.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Nagari canonical 1
Nagari (on some types) 1

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Statements (30)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Brahmic script
ancient script
writing system
associatedWithReligion Buddhism
Hinduism
Jainism
derivedFrom Gupta script
earlier Brahmi-derived scripts
developedInto Devanagari
linked to: Devanagari script

modern Devanagari script
directionOfWriting left-to-right
geographicScope northern Indian subcontinent
historicalPeriod early medieval India
influenced Devanagari orthography
languageFamilyWritten Indo-Aryan languages
region North India
linked to: northern India
scriptFeatures conjunct consonant forms
consonant-based characters with inherent vowel
use of vowel diacritics
scriptLineage Brahmi → Gupta → Nagari → Devanagari
scriptType abugida
successorScript Devanagari
linked to: Devanagari script
usedFor religious texts
scholarly works
usedForWriting Prakrit languages
linked to: Prakrit

Sanskrit
usedIn North India
linked to: northern India
writingMedium inscriptions
manuscripts
writingSystemFamily Brahmic scripts

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (2)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Jital scriptOnCoin Nagari (on some types)
linked to: Nagari