Devanagari (Nagari) vs Thai

Writing system comparison · ISO Deva vs ISO Thai

Devanagari (Nagari) is a Living Left-to-right script from South Asian used by 61 languages. Thai is a Living Left-to-right script from Southeast Asian (86 Unicode characters) used by 7 languages. Both scripts read Left-to-right.

नमस्ते दुनिया
देवनागरी
สวัสดีชาวโลก
อักษรไทย

Side-by-Side Comparison

Attribute Devanagari (Nagari) Thai
ISO Code Deva Thai
Direction Left-to-right Left-to-right
Status Living Living
Region South Asian Southeast Asian
Characters 86
Languages 61 7
Script Type Abugida Abugida
Descended From Brahmi Khmer
Total Speakers ~810M ~60M
Introduced 1200 CE 1283 CE
Unicode Ranges
U+0E01–U+0E5B

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