Devanagari (Nagari) vs Tamil

Writing system comparison · ISO Deva vs ISO Taml

Devanagari (Nagari) is a Living Left-to-right script from South Asian used by 61 languages. Tamil is a Living Left-to-right script from South Asian (123 Unicode characters) used by 2 languages. Both scripts read Left-to-right.

नमस्ते दुनिया
देवनागरी
வணக்கம்
தமிழ் எழுத்து

Side-by-Side Comparison

Attribute Devanagari (Nagari) Tamil
ISO Code Deva Taml
Direction Left-to-right Left-to-right
Status Living Living
Region South Asian South Asian
Characters 123
Languages 61 2
Script Type Abugida Abugida
Descended From Brahmi Brahmi
Total Speakers ~810M ~78M
Introduced 1200 CE 700 CE
Unicode Ranges
U+0B82–U+0BFA
U+11FC0–U+11FFF

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