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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 61. Chapters: Devanagari, Standard Hindi, Hindi-Urdu, Anti-Hindi agitations of Tamil Nadu, Hindi-Urdu grammar, Madras anti-Hindi agitation of 1965, Hindi theatre, Hindi literature, Anti-Hindi agitation of 1937-40, Hunterian transliteration, Navin Kundra, Hindi-Urdu controversy, History of Hindustani, List of English words of Hindi or Urdu origin, Varieties of Hindi, Hindustani orthography, List of Hindi language authors, Babul, Kumar Vishwas, Uddin and Begum Urdu-Hindustani Romanization, Hindi in Bihar, Phir Milenge Chalte Chalte, Keshavdas, Hinglish, Hindi languages, Mahatma Gandhi Antarrashtriya Hindi Vishwavidyalaya, Romanagari, Tirhut, Hindi Blogosphere, Hindi to Punjabi Machine Translation System, Rekhta, Western Hindi, Harvard-Kyoto, Bihari hindi, Shipra River, Sahu Todar, Technical English words in Hindi, R. S. McGregor, Bijak, Mohmil, Langdi, Drishtikon. Excerpt: Devanagari (pronounced; Hindustani: Devan gar - compound of "deva" () and "n gar " () ), also called Nagari (N gar, the name of its parent writing system), is an abugida alphabet of India and Nepal. It is written from left to right, does not have distinct letter cases, and is recognizable (along with most other North Indic scripts, with few exceptions like Gujarati and Oriya) by a horizontal line that runs along the top of full letters. Devan gar is the main script used to write Standard Hindi, Marathi, and Nepali. Since the 19th century, it has been the most commonly used script for Sanskrit. Devan gar is also employed for Bhojpuri, Gujari, Pahari, (Garhwali and Kumaoni), Konkani, Magahi, Maithili, Marwari, Bhili, Newari, Santhali, Tharu, and sometimes Sindhi, Dogri, Sherpa and by Kashmiri-speaking Hindus. It was formerly used to write Gujarati. Devan gar is part of the Brahmic family of scripts of India, Nepal, Tibet, and South-East Asia. It is a desc...
