Devanagari (Nagari) vs Tibetan

Writing system comparison · ISO Deva vs ISO Tibt

Devanagari (Nagari) is a Living Left-to-right script from South Asian used by 61 languages. Tibetan is a Living Left-to-right script from South Asian (207 Unicode characters) used by 3 languages. Both scripts read Left-to-right.

नमस्ते दुनिया
देवनागरी
བོད་སྐད།
བོད་ཡིག

Side-by-Side Comparison

Attribute Devanagari (Nagari) Tibetan
ISO Code Deva Tibt
Direction Left-to-right Left-to-right
Status Living Living
Region South Asian South Asian
Characters 207
Languages 61 3
Script Type Abugida Abugida
Descended From Brahmi Brahmi
Total Speakers ~810M ~1.4M
Introduced 1200 CE 620 CE
Unicode Ranges
U+0F00–U+0FDA

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