Nagari script

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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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