The Newari script also known as the Ranjana script is used for writing the Newari language of Nepal. It is is a Brahmic script and shows similarities to the Devanagari script of northern India and Nepal. The Newar are the indigenous ethnolinguistic group of Nepals Kathmandu valley. ... The Brahmic family is a family of abugidas used in South Asia and Southeast Asia. ... Rigveda manuscript in Devanagari (early 19th century) Devanāgarī (देवनागरी — in English pronounced ) (ISCII – IS13194:1991) [1] is a script used to write several Indian languages, including Sanskrit, Hindi, Marathi, Kashmiri, Sindhi, Bihari, Bhili, Konkani, Bhojpuri and Nepali from Nepal. ...
References
Newari/Ranjana script page on Omniglot (http://www.omniglot.com/writing/ranjana.htm)
Proposal for encoding Newari in Unicode (http://www.evertype.com/standards/tai/newari.pdf)
The usual name of the script is given first (and bolded); the name of the language(s) in which the script is written follows (in brackets), particularly in the case where the language name differs from the script name.
Ideographic scripts (in which graphemes are ideograms representing concepts or ideas, rather than a specific word in a language), and pictographic scripts (in which the graphemes are iconic pictures) are not thought to be able to express all that can be communicated by language.
An abugida, or alphasyllabary, is a segmental script in which vowel sounds are denoted by diacritical marks or other systematic modification of the consonants.
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