Devanagari (Nagari) vs Egyptian hieroglyphs

Writing system comparison · ISO Deva vs ISO Egyp

Devanagari (Nagari) is a Living Left-to-right script from South Asian used by 61 languages. Egyptian hieroglyphs is a Living Left-to-right script (5,105 Unicode characters) used by 1 language. Both scripts read Left-to-right.

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Side-by-Side Comparison

Attribute Devanagari (Nagari) Egyptian hieroglyphs
ISO Code Deva Egyp
Direction Left-to-right Left-to-right
Status Living Living
Region South Asian
Characters 5,105
Languages 61 1
Script Type Abugida Logographic
Descended From Brahmi
Total Speakers ~810M
Introduced 1200 CE
Unicode Ranges
U+13000–U+1342F
U+13430–U+13455
U+13460–U+143FA

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Data sourced from the ISO 15924 registry, Unicode CLDR, and the Unicode Character Database.