Devanagari (Nagari) vs Oriya (Odia)

Writing system comparison · ISO Deva vs ISO Orya

Devanagari (Nagari) is a Living Left-to-right script from South Asian used by 61 languages. Oriya (Odia) is a Living Left-to-right script from South Asian used by 1 language. Both scripts read Left-to-right.

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Side-by-Side Comparison

Attribute Devanagari (Nagari) Oriya (Odia)
ISO Code Deva Orya
Direction Left-to-right Left-to-right
Status Living Living
Region South Asian South Asian
Characters
Languages 61 1
Script Type Abugida Abugida
Descended From Brahmi Brahmi
Total Speakers ~810M ~35M
Introduced 1200 CE 1060 CE

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