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Devanagari
Devanagari is an Indian script, written from left to right with a characteristic horizontal headline, in which each consonant carries an inherent vowel. It developed from the Brahmi script through the Nagari scripts of northern India in the late first millennium CE. It is used for Hindi, Marathi, Nepali, Sanskrit and many other languages and is one of the most widely used writing systems in the world.
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