Devanagari (Nagari) vs Yi

Writing system comparison · ISO Deva vs ISO Yiii

Devanagari (Nagari) is a Living Left-to-right script from South Asian used by 61 languages. Yi is a Living Left-to-right script from East Asian (1,220 Unicode characters) used by 1 language. Both scripts read Left-to-right.

नमस्ते दुनिया
देवनागरी
Yi
ꆈꌠꁱꂷ

Side-by-Side Comparison

Attribute Devanagari (Nagari) Yi
ISO Code Deva Yiii
Direction Left-to-right Left-to-right
Status Living Living
Region South Asian East Asian
Characters 1,220
Languages 61 1
Script Type Abugida Syllabary
Descended From Brahmi
Total Speakers ~810M
Introduced 1200 CE 2004 CE
Unicode Ranges
U+A000–U+A48C
U+A490–U+A4C6

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