Devanagari

(dā'və-nä'gə-rē)
n.
The alphabet in which Sanskrit and many modern Indian languages are written. Also called Nagari.

[Sanskrit devanāgarī, royal city writing (from its supposedly having been invented in Pataliputra, a royal city in India) : deva-, divine, royal + nāgarī, feminine of nāgara-, of a city (from nagaram, city , probably of Dravidian origin).]

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IN BRIEF: n. - A syllabic script used in writing Sanskrit and Hindi.

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• Linguistics and Writing Systems - Devanagari: alphabetic script with some syllabic features, used for writing Hindi and other languages of India

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