Nepalese scripts

Nepalese scripts (Nepal Lipi: š‘£š‘¾š‘„š‘µš‘® š‘š‘š‘®, Devanagari: ą¤Øą„‡ą¤Ŗą¤¾ą¤² ą¤†ą¤–ą¤²) are a family of alphabetic writing systems employed historically in Nepal Mandala by the indigenous Newars for primarily writing Nepal Bhasa. It is also used for transcribing Sanskrit and Pali. There are also some claims they have also been used to write the Parbatiya (Khas) language.

This article is about the script used to write Nepal Bhasa. For the script used to write Nepali language, see Devanagari.
Nepalese scripts
Script type
DirectionLeft-to-right 
RegionNepal and India
LanguagesNepal Bhasa
Related scripts
Parent systems
Child systems
Ranjana, Bhujimol, Pracalit
Brahmic scripts
The Brahmi script and its descendants
Northern Brahmic
Southern Brahmic

These scripts were in widespread use from the 10th to the early 20th-century, but have since been largely supplanted by the modern script known as Devanagari. Of the older scripts, about 50,000 manuscripts written in Nepal Lipi have been archived.

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