Devanagari (Nagari) vs Kayah Li

Writing system comparison · ISO Deva vs ISO Kali

Devanagari (Nagari) is a Living Left-to-right script from South Asian used by 61 languages. Kayah Li is a Living Left-to-right script from Southeast Asian (47 Unicode characters) used by 2 languages. Both scripts read Left-to-right.

नमस्ते दुनिया
देवनागरी
ꤊꤢꤛꤢꤩ

Side-by-Side Comparison

Attribute Devanagari (Nagari) Kayah Li
ISO Code Deva Kali
Direction Left-to-right Left-to-right
Status Living Living
Region South Asian Southeast Asian
Characters 47
Languages 61 2
Script Type Abugida Abugida
Descended From Brahmi Brahmi
Total Speakers ~810M
Introduced 1200 CE
Unicode Ranges
U+A900–U+A92F

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