Devanagari (Nagari) vs Kawi

Writing system comparison · ISO Deva vs ISO Kawi

Devanagari (Nagari) is a Living Left-to-right script from South Asian used by 61 languages. Kawi is a Living Left-to-right script (87 Unicode characters) used by 0 languages. Both scripts read Left-to-right.

नमस्ते दुनिया
देवनागरी

Side-by-Side Comparison

Attribute Devanagari (Nagari) Kawi
ISO Code Deva Kawi
Direction Left-to-right Left-to-right
Status Living Living
Region South Asian
Characters 87
Languages 61 0
Script Type Abugida Abugida
Descended From Brahmi Brahmi
Total Speakers ~810M
Introduced 1200 CE
Unicode Ranges
U+11F00–U+11F5A

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