Devanagari (Nagari) vs Tifinagh (Berber)

Writing system comparison · ISO Deva vs ISO Tfng

Devanagari (Nagari) is a Living Left-to-right script from South Asian used by 61 languages. Tifinagh (Berber) is a Living Left-to-right script from African used by 5 languages. Both scripts read Left-to-right.

नमस्ते दुनिया
देवनागरी
ⵜⵉⴼⵉⵏⴰⵖ
ⵜⵉⴼⵉⵏⴰⵖ

Side-by-Side Comparison

Attribute Devanagari (Nagari) Tifinagh (Berber)
ISO Code Deva Tfng
Direction Left-to-right Left-to-right
Status Living Living
Region South Asian African
Characters
Languages 61 5
Script Type Abugida Alphabet
Descended From Brahmi
Total Speakers ~810M
Introduced 1200 CE 3000 BCE

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