Devanagari (Nagari) vs Ugaritic

Writing system comparison · ISO Deva vs ISO Ugar

Devanagari (Nagari) is a Living Left-to-right script from South Asian used by 61 languages. Ugaritic is a Historical Left-to-right script from Middle Eastern (31 Unicode characters) used by 1 language. Both scripts read Left-to-right.

नमस्ते दुनिया
देवनागरी
𐎀𐎁𐎂

Side-by-Side Comparison

Attribute Devanagari (Nagari) Ugaritic
ISO Code Deva Ugar
Direction Left-to-right Left-to-right
Status Living Historical
Region South Asian Middle Eastern
Characters 31
Languages 61 1
Script Type Abugida Abjad
Descended From Brahmi Phoenician
Total Speakers ~810M
Introduced 1200 CE 1400 BCE
Unicode Ranges
U+10380–U+1039F

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