Devanagari (Nagari) vs Myanmar (Burmese)

Writing system comparison · ISO Deva vs ISO Mymr

Devanagari (Nagari) is a Living Left-to-right script from South Asian used by 61 languages. Myanmar (Burmese) is a Living Left-to-right script from Southeast Asian used by 4 languages. Both scripts read Left-to-right.

नमस्ते दुनिया
देवनागरी
မင်္ဂလာပါ
မြန်မာအက္ခရာ

Side-by-Side Comparison

Attribute Devanagari (Nagari) Myanmar (Burmese)
ISO Code Deva Mymr
Direction Left-to-right Left-to-right
Status Living Living
Region South Asian Southeast Asian
Characters
Languages 61 4
Script Type Abugida Abugida
Descended From Brahmi Brahmi
Total Speakers ~810M ~33M
Introduced 1200 CE 1050 CE

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