Devanagari (Nagari) vs Greek

Writing system comparison · ISO Deva vs ISO Grek

Devanagari (Nagari) is a Living Left-to-right script from South Asian used by 61 languages. Greek is a Living Left-to-right script from European (518 Unicode characters) used by 5 languages. Both scripts read Left-to-right.

नमस्ते दुनिया
देवनागरी
Γεια σου κόσμε
Ελληνικό αλφάβητο

Side-by-Side Comparison

Attribute Devanagari (Nagari) Greek
ISO Code Deva Grek
Direction Left-to-right Left-to-right
Status Living Living
Region South Asian European
Characters 518
Languages 61 5
Script Type Abugida Alphabet
Descended From Brahmi Phoenician
Total Speakers ~810M ~13M
Introduced 1200 CE 800 BCE
Unicode Ranges
U+0370–U+03FF
U+1D26–U+1D6A
U+1DBF–U+1DBF
U+1F00–U+1FFE
U+2126–U+2126
U+AB65–U+AB65
U+10140–U+1018E
U+101A0–U+101A0
U+1D200–U+1D245

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