Devanagari (Nagari) vs Lycian

Writing system comparison · ISO Deva vs ISO Lyci

Devanagari (Nagari) is a Living Left-to-right script from South Asian used by 61 languages. Lycian is a Historical Left-to-right script from European (29 Unicode characters) used by 1 language. Both scripts read Left-to-right.

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Side-by-Side Comparison

Attribute Devanagari (Nagari) Lycian
ISO Code Deva Lyci
Direction Left-to-right Left-to-right
Status Living Historical
Region South Asian European
Characters 29
Languages 61 1
Script Type Abugida Alphabet
Descended From Brahmi
Total Speakers ~810M
Introduced 1200 CE 400 BCE
Unicode Ranges
U+10280–U+1029C

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