Devanagari (Noun)
Meaning
A syllabic script used in writing Sanskrit and Hindi.
Classification
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents.
Examples
- The Devanagari script is used to write many languages, including Hindi, Marathi, and Sanskrit.
- Devanagari is an abugida script, which means that consonant-vowel pairs are represented by a single symbol.
- The Devanagari script is written from left to right and consists of 47 primary characters.
- The earliest known inscriptions in Devanagari date back to the 11th century.
- Many Indian languages, including Hindi, Rajasthani, and Gujarati, use the Devanagari script as their standard writing system.