Nāgarī script
| Nāgarī | |
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The word Nāgarī in the Nāgarī script. | |
| Script type | |
Period | 7th century CE |
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Sister systems | Bengali-Assamese script, Odia script, Nepalese |
| Brahmic scripts |
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| The Brahmi script and its descendants |
The Nāgarī script is the ancestor of Devanagari, Nandinagari and other variants, and was first used to write Prakrit and Sanskrit. The term is sometimes used as a synonym for Devanagari script. It came in vogue during the first millennium CE.
The Nāgarī script has roots in the ancient Brahmi script family. The Nāgarī script was in regular use by 7th century CE, and had fully evolved into Devanagari and Nandinagari scripts by about the end of first millennium of the common era.