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	CEDAR Devanagari Script Recognition
		Devanagari is written from left to right along a horizontal line.
		Devanagari also has a native set of symbols for numerals, though Arabic numbers are typically used.
		OCR for Devanagari script becomes even more difficult when compound character and modifier characteristics are combined in 'noisy' situations.
	www.cedar.buffalo.edu /script/Dscript.html (407 words)

	science in India - linguistics
		The Nagari script was renamed the Devanagari script in the eleventh century.
		This script was used for the Malayalam language and as the southern script for Sanskrit.
		Devanagari is, of course, the foremost among all - Malayalam, Grantha, Telugu, Bhoti (in Tibet), Sharada (in Kashmir), Bengali, and the Maithili script employed by the Brahmins of the state of Bihar in religious manuscripts or scholarly treatises.
	www.indiaheritage.org /science/ling.htm (1898 words)

	______Devanagari - The Perfect Script______ (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Devanagari - The Perfect Script ------------------------------- "Nagari script is simple, scientific and a sure vehicle for national integration", declared Dr. Mullick Mohammed, a recipeint of Padmasri and All-India President of Nagari Lipi Parishad, New Delhi while inaugurating the 17th All India Nagari Sammelan at Bangalore on 19 March 1994.
		Answer: In depth graphic studies of the Devanagari script is based on logical evolution of the letters to which there is no parallel in any other script of the world.
		Nagari is known to a larger percentage of readers in India, the structure of ther Indian scripts is identical with that of Nagari but the forms have diversified in the last one thousand years.
	www.hindunet.org /alt_hindu/1994/msg00171.html (673 words)

	Learning Devanagari - Wikitravel
		Devanagari writing is often likened to a washing line: a line is drawn above the words, and the letters are hung out to dry below the line.
		Devanagari is classified as an abugida, which means that each character represents a syllable, not a single letter as in English.
		Devanagari is quite regular, but there are a few pronunciation quirks to watch out for when using it to read Hindi.
	wikitravel.org /en/Learning_Devanagari (1211 words)

	Language in India
		If script creates confusion and cannot represent the sounds distinct, and at the same time it takes more time for reading and writing, and is difficult to adopt for printing purposes, then the script should be modified to fulfill the needs of the community, or it should be replaced by another better script.
		Two scripts across nations are also uneconomical and inconvenient in the sense that a person interested in reading the literature written in his language from across the international border will not have an easy access to it, because the literature is written in a script that he cannot read or write.
		When a script distinct from the script of the dominant regional language is to be adopted, one can think of the script of the next useful language, especially the language that the children from the people group will be required to learn in the school system.
	www.languageinindia.com /sep2001/jcscript.html (3422 words)

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		Devanagari Script has a large basic set of characters - comprised of 16 vowels and 36 basic consonants.
		Devanagari emerged around 1200 AD out of the Siddham script, gradually replacing the earlier, closely related Sharada script (which remained in parallel use in Kashmir).
		Both are immediate descendants of the Gupta script, ultimately deriving from the Brāhmī script attested from the 3rd century BC.
	www.lycos.com /info/devanagari--devanagari-script.html (419 words)

	Ancient Scripts: Devanagari
		Even though a descendent of the Brahmi script, Devanagari has evolved into a highly cursive script.
		Hindu scriptures are written in Devanagari, a fact illustrated by the etymology of the name.
		Together it implies both a script that is both religious as well as urbane or sophisticated.
	www.ancientscripts.com /devanagari.html (505 words)

	Development of the Devanagari script
		The Devanagari script, used for writing Sanskrit and other Indian languages had evolved over a period of more than two thousand years.
		The Brahmi script confirms to the syllabic writing system and was used more for writing Prakrit, the language spoken by ordinary people.
		The monuments and rock edicts where the Brahmi script was seen, had remained either totally unexplored or in very dilapidated conditions and India owes a debt of gratitude to these scholars for the wealth of information that followed.
	acharya.iitm.ac.in /sanskrit/script_dev.php (721 words)

	CEDAR Devanagari Script Recognition
		Devanagari Optical Character Recognition (OCR) is a very well-researched problem, with many groups actively researching it.
		Given that a test bench for various Devanagari OCR algorithms was clearly lacking, we have worked on non-comprehensive testing of algorithms and OCR methodologies.
		Devanagari text can be partitioned into basic and compound characters, and feature extraction techniques divide the character into 9 zones, and a search for primitives is discussed in some of the papers listed in the bibliography.
	www.cedar.buffalo.edu /script/Doverview.html (784 words)

	Script override (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Script Override menu) is a very useful feature, using which, you can read the text of one Indian language script in another Indian language script or Latin script.
		Some scripts don't have characters that are in the other scripts.
		Script Override is useful for learning new scripts.
	www.baraha.com /html_help/baraha/script_override.htm (408 words)

	Welcome to Bellevision Global
		The issue of dual script of Konkani, which was then shelved to keep the demand of Marathi protagonists at bay, has resurfaced now after 19 years.
		Protagonists of the Roman script were lobbying with ruling party MLAs and Ministers to push for an amendment to the Act through a private member's Bill.
		Uday Bhembre is chairman of Vichar Vibhag and an advocate of Devanagari as the uniform script for Konkani.
	www.bellevision.com /newshead.asp?nhid=3477 (544 words)

	FAQ - Indic Scripts and Languages
		The Bangla "fullstop" is similar to the Devanagari danda (0x0964) both being taken from the Brahmi script, but the corresponding point in the Bengali block at U+09E4 is reserved.
		Particularly relevant is the section on Devanagari, which is a detailed description not only of the Devanagari script but also outlines the model used for all similarly structured scripts in the standard.
		Q: The Bangla "fullstop" is similar to the Devanagari danda (U+0964) both being taken from the Brahmi script, but the corresponding point in the Bengali block at U+09E4 is reserved.
	www.unicode.org /faq/indic.html (2664 words)

	MT WorldType Devanagari
		Nowadays, it is also the script most commonly used for writing Sanskrit which is the ancient predecessor of Modern Hindi.
		The basic component of the script is the syllable or aksara, which is typically a consonant-vowel unit.
		Devanagari is written from left to right along a horizontal line and its basic set of symbols consists of 34 consonants and 18 vowels.
	www.monotype.co.uk /NonLatin/wt_info/info_devanagari.html (572 words)

	Devanagari - Test for Unicode support in Web browsers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The Devanagari script is used for several languages, including Bhojpuri, Bihari, Hindi, Kashmiri, Konkani, Marathi, Nepali and Sanskrit.
		Devanagari Web pages with UTF-8 encoding are supported by Internet Explorer 5 (or higher) with Windows 95 (or higher), by the iCab Web browser for Macintosh, and by Mozilla and Netscape 7.
		The characters that appear in the first column of the following table depend on the browser that you are using, the fonts installed on your computer, and the browser options you have chosen that determine the fonts used to display particular character sets, encodings or languages.
	www.alanwood.net /unicode/devanagari.html (358 words)

	Devanagari (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		"Devanagari" (sometimes referred to simply as, "Nagari") is the name of the script used to write Hindi, the national language of India (Snell, 1-5).
		Devanagari is not only used to write Hindi; over time it has been modified to record words of other languages, both inside and outside of India (Hayes, 112).
		This set of lessons is designed to teach an English speaker to read the Devanagari script.
	www.garretwilson.com /education/languages/hindi/devanagari (484 words)

	Welcome to Bellevision Global
		This shade of Konkani is sought to be suppressed and eliminated by the Devanagari fanatics.
		Let the Kala academy revive the literary awards and all other schemes which are available to Konkani in Devanagari script, to Konkani written in Roman script as well.
		Let a Roman script Konkani wing be established in the Kala Academy to look after the interests of Tiatrs, Kantaram, Mandos, Dulpods and other genuinely Goan art forms.
	www.bellevision.com /archives.asp?arcid=244 (3370 words)

	Ancient Scripts: Modi
		The Modi script was used to write the Marathi language spoken in the Indian state of Maharashtra.
		It originated as a cursive variant of the Devanagari script during the 17th century CE.
		Usually the same stroke form is used for the same vowel across all letters of the script, but in the case of Modi (and a few other South Asian scripts as well) different stroke forms exist to represent the same vowel in different letters.
	www.ancientscripts.com /modi.html (174 words)

	Alphabet of DevaNagari Script: à¤µà¤°à¥à¤£à¤®à¤¾à¤²à¤¾ (Varnamala)
		DevaNagari (à¤¨à¤¾à¤—à¤°à¥/à¤¦à¥à¤µà¤¨à¤¾à¤—à¤°à¥) is a widely used script (à¤²à¤¿à¤ªà¤¿/lipi).
		The advantage of having icons of DevaNagari characters is that you may read these pages even if your browser can't display Unicode encoded DevaNagari.
		The transliterated words of Sanskrit or Hindi which are unfamiliar (or not present in English dictionaries) are written in single quotation.
	www.softfonts.com /nagari.html (700 words)

	More Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		While all the characters for Urdu script, devanagari, and transliteration have been encoded into Unicode, only certain fonts have the glyphs used to represent these scripts.
		The devanagari text that displays on these webpages is a phonetic transcription of the Urdu characters into devanagari script and does not follow Modern Standard Hindi spelling.
		In order to make the devanagari words more legible in their phonetic form, the 'viraam' character is now being forcibly used in all conjunct situations.
	www.columbia.edu /~asp49/00ghalib/moreinfo.html (318 words)

	Navhind Times on the Web: Panorama
		As I had remarked in my observations, the question of adapting this or that script by some countries like Turkey or Malaysia or Indonesia is not at all relevant as far as the language scenario of the Indian subcontinent is concerned.
		The structure of all Indian scripts is basically one, whether it is Devanagari, Bengali, Gujarati or scripts of South Indian languages.
		A sizable population of Santhals, whose homeland is Jharkhand, are in favour of Devanagari script, mainly because of their familiarity with Hindi and also because in their region they write their language in Devanagari.
	www.navhindtimes.com /articles.php?Story_ID=091042 (1173 words)

	Keywords » Devanagari
		I know that the study of language and grammar has ancient roots in India, such as the famous fifth century scholar, Pāṇini, but the Devanagari script is actually much more recent, dating from the twelfth century.
		Some of its antecedents were the Siddham script, the Gupta script from the fourth to the eighth centuries and, ultimately, the 5th century BCE Brahmi.
		It used to be written in the script of the regional language (Bengali in Bengal, Telugu in Andhra or in Grantha in the Tamil region).
	keywords.oxus.net /archives/2005/11/05/devanagari (1676 words)

	Notes on Viewing and Creating Documents in Devanagari - HR Pota
		I think so far Macintosh doesn't come with a default font which supports Devanagari Unicode but as Alan Wood writes, "Mac OS X 10 can use fonts intended for Windows, and comes with an increasing range of Mac Unicode fonts that allow a variety of scripts to be edited and displayed."
		If someone sends you a document with Devanagari text in utf-8 encoding then it should be displayed correctly by Outlook Express or Notepad or MS Word or for that matter most microsoft programs.
		See additional information about unicode devanagari at Alan Wood's Unicode Resources Test for Unicode support in Web browsers Devanagari, Devanagari writing, and Hindi translation of what is Unicode.
	www.ee.adfa.edu.au /staff/hrp/personal/Sanskrit-External/unicodenotes.html (2104 words)

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		Devanagari is a form of alphabet called an abugida, as each consonant has an inherent vowel (a), that can be changed with the different vowel signs.
		Mettā (मेटा in Devanagari) is a Pali word meaning unconditional loving-kindness.
		In Devanagari, the virama takes the form of a small diagonal stroke placed as a subscript on a syllable.
	www.lycos.com /info/devanagari.html (383 words)

	Devanagari Computing Information (Penn State)
		Devanagari is a syllabic alphabet in that it consists of consonants with vowel signs.
		In the past, proper encoding was not always considered a major issue and many larger news or information sites would offer their own fonts to download, but they would only work with those sites.
		Apple has two keyboards called Devanagari and Devanagari QWERTY (phonetic) keyboard and one for Nepali (as of 10.4/Tiger).
	tlt.its.psu.edu /suggestions/international/bylanguage/devanagari.html (1072 words)

	Scripts of India
		As seen earlier, the languages of India are phonetic in nature and hence the writing system for any language maps the sounds of the aksharas to specific shapes.
		The actual rules for forming consonant vowel combinations and conjunct characters vary from script to script.
		The Devanagari script has evolved over a period of several hundreds of years.
	acharya.iitm.ac.in /cgi-bin/script_disp.pl?sanskrit (244 words)

	International Cataloging [OCLC]
		All non-Latin script data is displayed in 880 fields at the end of the record.
		Enter the non-Latin script data in the first field of the pair, and optionally, enter the romanized data in the second field.
		You cannot use non-Latin script data in Connexion client macros that you write or record to edit or add data to a record.
	www.oclc.org /support/documentation/connexion/client/international (12766 words)

	THDL: Nepali Fonts
		Nepali is written in the Devanagari (or 'Nagari' script), which is also used for Hindi, Marathi and Sanskrit.
		Nepali Devanagari has 11 vowels and 33 consonants and is largely phonetic, which means that the pronunciation closely resembles the writing system.
		In order to view or input the Devanagari script in a digital context, it is necessary to have a Devanagari font installed on one's computer or to have a Unicode enabled computer which has a keyboard driver for Indian (and preferably Nepali) input.
	www.thdl.org /tools/fonts/nepali.html (1081 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Note that only the Devanagari fonts provided by Apple can be used: Windows fonts for this script require a different rendering technology and will not display correct Devanagari on a Mac.
		Note that the Halant/Virama key is the D key on Devanagari keyboards and the F key on Devanagari-QWERTY keyboards.
		RA is the J key on Devanagari keyboards and the R key on Devanagari-QWERTY keyboards.
	homepage.mac.com /thgewecke/TypingDevanagari.html (497 words)

	Asian Studies Program - La Trobe University
		The idea of learning a new script may seem forbidding to begin with but actually the script in which Hindi is written is fairly easy to learn, fun to draw and can be very beautiful.
		These sounds are represented in the Devanagari script by 52 symbols: for ten vowels, two modifiers and 40 consonants.
		You will also need to learn to recognise a character that traditionally represented a vowel, but does not any longer, and four common conjunct consonants, which is actually a total of 57 symbols to remember to begin with.
	www.latrobe.edu.au /indiangallery/devanagari.htm (196 words)

	Siddham (Bonji) script
		The Siddham script is a descendent of the Brahmi script and an ancestor of the Devanagari script.
		The name Siddham comes from Sanskrit and means "accomplished or perfected" The Siddham script is mainly used by Shingon Buddhists in Japan to write out mantra and sutras in Sanskrit.
		In Japan the Siddham script is known as 梵字 (bonji).
	www.omniglot.com /writing/siddham.htm (96 words)

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