Nāgarī script

Nāgarī
Copper plates in Nāgarī script, 1035 CE
Type	Abugida
Languages	Sanskrit Old Javanese Old Sundanese
Time period	c. 750–?
Parent systems	Proto-Sinaitic 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. Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols.

The Nāgarī script is the ancestor of Devanagari, Assamese, Bengali and other variants, and was first used to write Prakrit and Sanskrit. It was in vogue from before the 10th century^[1]

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, and Nandinagari, and also influenced the development of the Śāradā-derived Gurmukhī script.

Citations

1. ^ Devanagari through the ages,Issue 8 of Publication, India Central Hindi Directorate Issue 8 of Publication (Instituut voor Toegepaste Sociologie te Nijmegen). Published 1967 Original from the University of California. 1967.