Talk:Devanagari

Has anyone ever noticed these similarities?
Has anyone, or can anyone look into the similarities between the Greek alphabet and the Brahmi alphabet which then influenced the Devangari? I absolutely see the similarity between the Devangari "थ", the Brahmi "𑀣" and the Greek Θ. Or the Brahmi "𑀓", Devangari "क" and Greek "κ"?

Some like the Brahmi "𑀮" as a flipped "L"? Is there a link between these scripts and Greek possibly? I just did a search for the word "greek" on the Brahmi wiki at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brahmi_script and it appears 33 times. Can someone expand on the possible greek origins of Devangari by way of Brahmi? Thank you.

Temet Nosce (talk) 03:28, 1 October 2021 (UTC)


 * This is covered at . Brusquedandelion (talk) 00:54, 20 March 2024 (UTC)

Need clearer consonant letter order
The consonant chart (section 3.2) does not quite make the exact alphabetical order of all the consonants in Devanagari clear. This order, following authoritative sources such as Monier-Williams' Sanskrit-English Dictionary, follows each row of the chart across from left to right, beginning with the top row, BUT only as far as the plosives and nasals! All of the plosives and nasals are ordered in this way first, and only then does the alphabetical order proceed to the approximants, going from top to bottom down the column, and then to the aghoṣa fricatives (the sibilant fricatives), again going from top to bottom down the column, and finally the lone saghoṣa fricative is the last consonant in this order. The chart does not make any of this clear at all, and there is no way a reader could be expected to figure it out from the chart and the article as it appears right now, even though section 3 (Letters) begins by talking about the "letter order of Devanagari". Skummafremdygest (talk) 17:47, 14 July 2022 (UTC)

use of phonological brackets / / instead of phonetical brackets [   ]  ?
Wouldn't it be much better to use for example /r/ instead of [r] ? In the case of /r/ र, even in Hindi it can also be [ɾ] intervocally, and in Classical Sanskrit it apparently was [ɽ], [ɾ] or [ɾ̪]. In Marathi the sound is given as [ɾ~r] on the phonology page. As is well known, व can be [ʋ], [v] or [w]. And all this variation is not a problem for the clarity of the script, as they aren't different phonemes. Exarchus (talk) 19:40, 7 June 2023 (UTC)