Nāgarī script

Nāgarī
Type	Abugida
Spoken languages	Sanskrit
Time period	c. 750–?
Parent systems	Proto-Canaanite alphabet [a]  → Phoenician alphabet [a]   → Aramaic alphabet [a]    → Brāhmī     → Gupta      → Nāgarī
Child systems	Eastern Nagari Devanāgarī
Sister systems	Śāradā Siddhaṃ
[a] The Semitic origin of the Brahmic scripts is not universally agreed upon.
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The Nāgarī script appeared in ancient India around the 8th century CE as an eastern variant of the Gupta script (whereas Śāradā was the western variety). In turn it branched off into several scripts, such as Devanagari, Eastern Nagari, Nandinagari, and Tibetan, and also influenced the development of the Śāradā-derived Gurmukhī script.

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