The Newari script also known as the Ranjana script is used for writing the Newari language of Nepal. It 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) DevanÄgarÄ« (देवनागरी — in English pronounced ) (ISCII – IS13194:1991) [1] is an abugida alphabet used to write several Indian languages, including Sanskrit, Hindi, Marathi, Kashmiri, Sindhi, Bihari, Bhili, Konkani, Bhojpuri and Nepali from Nepal. ...
In the devanagariscript used for Sanskrit/Nepal Bhasa, whenever a consonant in a word-ending position is without any virāma (ie, freely standing in the orthography: प as opposed to प्), the neutral vowel schwa (/ə/) is automatically associated with it—this is of course true for the consonant to be in any position in the word.
Devanagariscript is the most used font at the present because it is the official script of Nepal as well as is used widely in neighbouring India.
Ranjanascript was the most used script in ancient times.
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, as argued by the linguists John DeFrancis and J.
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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