Devanagari (Nagari) vs Marchen

Writing system comparison · ISO Deva vs ISO Marc

Devanagari (Nagari) is a Living Left-to-right script from South Asian used by 61 languages. Marchen is a Historical Left-to-right script from South Asian (68 Unicode characters) used by 0 languages. Both scripts read Left-to-right.

नमस्ते दुनिया
देवनागरी

Side-by-Side Comparison

Attribute Devanagari (Nagari) Marchen
ISO Code Deva Marc
Direction Left-to-right Left-to-right
Status Living Historical
Region South Asian South Asian
Characters 68
Languages 61 0
Script Type Abugida Abugida
Descended From Brahmi Tibetan
Total Speakers ~810M
Introduced 1200 CE
Unicode Ranges
U+11C70–U+11CB6

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