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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: 102. Chapters: Hangul, Devanagari, Thai script, Gujarati script, Sinhala script, Gurmukhī script, Malayalam script, Brahmic family of scripts, Kannada script, Bengali script, Tamil script, Burmese script, Balinese script, Khmer script, Eastern Nagari script, Tibetan script, Konkani script, Brāhmī script, Devanagari transliteration, Hunterian transliteration, Siddhaṃ script, Baybayin, Javanese script, Assamese script, Dhivehi writing systems, Lao script, Telugu script, Lontara script, Ranjana script, International Alphabet of Sanskrit Transliteration, Oriya script, Limbu script, Tai Nua language, Tulu script, Tai Tham script, 'Phags-pa script, Gupta script, Cham script, Ahom script, Ancient Philippine scripts, Soyombo script, Modi script, Tamil-Brahmi, InScript keyboard, Kawi script, ITRANS, Mithilakshar, Śāradā script, Lepcha script, Dhives Akuru, Vatteluttu, Batak script, Anga Lipi, Bhattiprolu script, Rejang script, Kutila inscription of Bareilly, Tagbanwa script, Goykanadi, Takri script, Meitei Mayek script, Kaithi, Sylheti Nagari, Laṇḍā, Nāgarī script, Harvard-Kyoto, Saurashtra script, Chakma script, Buhid script, Nepal script, Tai Le script, Kadamba script, Nayanagari, Kalinga script, Tua Tham, Ardhanagari. Excerpt: Devanagari (pronounced; Hindustani: Devanāgarī - compound of "deva" (देव) and "nagari" (नगर) ), also called Nagari (Nāgarī, 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. Devanāgarī is the main script used to write Standard Hindi, Marathi, and Nepali. Since the 19th century, it has been the most...