Devanagari (Nagari) vs N’Ko

Writing system comparison · ISO Deva vs ISO Nkoo

Devanagari (Nagari) is a Living Left-to-right script from South Asian used by 61 languages. N’Ko is a Living Right-to-left script from African used by 3 languages. A key difference is reading direction: Devanagari (Nagari) reads Left-to-right, while N’Ko reads Right-to-left.

नमस्ते दुनिया
देवनागरी
ߒߞߏ
ߒߞߏ

Side-by-Side Comparison

Attribute Devanagari (Nagari) N’Ko
ISO Code Deva Nkoo
Direction Left-to-right Right-to-left
Status Living Living
Region South Asian African
Characters
Languages 61 3
Script Type Abugida Alphabet
Descended From Brahmi Arabic
Total Speakers ~810M ~14M
Introduced 1200 CE 1949 CE

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