Devanagari (Nagari) vs Runic

Writing system comparison · ISO Deva vs ISO Runr

Devanagari (Nagari) is a Living Left-to-right script from South Asian used by 61 languages. Runic is a Historical Left-to-right script from European (86 Unicode characters) used by 1 language. Both scripts read Left-to-right.

नमस्ते दुनिया
देवनागरी
ᚱᚢᚾᛁᚲ

Side-by-Side Comparison

Attribute Devanagari (Nagari) Runic
ISO Code Deva Runr
Direction Left-to-right Left-to-right
Status Living Historical
Region South Asian European
Characters 86
Languages 61 1
Script Type Abugida Alphabet
Descended From Brahmi Old Italic (Etruscan, Oscan, etc.)
Total Speakers ~810M
Introduced 1200 CE 150 CE
Unicode Ranges
U+16A0–U+16F8

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