The word 'Prachalit Nepal' in Prachalit Nepal script
Script type
Abugida
Time period
Unknown — 1769
Direction
Left-to-right
Languages
Nepal Bhasa, Sanskrit, Pali
Related scripts
Parent systems
Proto-Sinaitic script
Phoenician alphabet
Aramaic script (?)
Brāhmī
Gupta
Siddham[2]
Nepali
Prachalit Nepal
Sister systems
Ranjana Bhujimol
ISO 15924
ISO 15924
Newa(333), Newa, Newar, Newari, Nepāla lipi
Unicode
Unicode alias
Newa
Unicode range
U+11400–U+1147F
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Zanabazar square
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Nepal script used on letterhead of Nepalese business house in Lhasa dated 1958.Letter in Nepal Bhasa and Nepal script dated 7 May 1924 sent from Lhasa to Kathmandu.
Prachalit, also known as Newa, Newar, Newari, or Nepāla lipi is a type of abugida script developed from the Nepalese scripts, which are a part of the family of Brahmic scripts descended from Brahmi script. It is used to write Nepal Bhasa, Sanskrit and Pali. Various publications are still published in this script including the Sikkim Herald the bulletin of the Sikkim government (Newari edition).[1]
^ abPandey, Anshuman (3 May 2011). "N4038: Preliminary Proposal to Encode the Prachalit Nepal Script in ISO/IEC 10646" (PDF). Retrieved 24 June 2016.
^Masica, Colin (1993). The Indo-Aryan languages. p. 143.
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