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Rigveda manuscript in Devanāgarī (early 19th century)
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| Name | Devanāgarī |
| Sample | Rigveda MS2097.jpg |
| Caption | Rigveda manuscript in Devanāgarī (early 19th century) |
| Type | abugida |
| Languages | Several Indian languages, including Sanskrit, Hindi, Marathi, Pahari (Garhwali and Kumaoni), Nepali, Bhili, Konkani, Bhojpuri, Magahi, Kurukh, Nepal Bhasa, and Sindhi. Sometimes used to write or transliterate Sherpa and Kashmiri. Formerly used to write Gujarati. |
| Time | c. 1200 � present |
| Region | India and Nepal |
| Fam1 | Proto-Sinaitic alphabet |
| Fam2 | Phoenician alphabet |
| Fam3 | Aramaic alphabet |
| Fam4 | Brāhmī |
| Fam5 | Gupta |
| Fam6 | Nāgarī |
| Sisters | Sharada, Eastern Nāgarī |
| Children | Gujarati
Moḍī
Ranjana
Canadian Aboriginal syllabics |
| Unicode | U+097F Devanagari,
U+A8FF Devanagari Extended,
U+1CFF Vedic Extensions |
| Iso15924 | Deva |
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Devanagari (-enˌdeɪvəˈnɑːɡəriːpron; -hnsd̪eːʋˈnaːɡrilang; Devanāgarī - compound of "deva" ( ) and "nāgarī" ( ) ), 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 commonly used script for Sanskrit. Devanāgarī 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.
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