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Nepal Lipi is available in Unicode as Newa script. It is the official script used to write Nepal Bhasa. Ranjana script has been proposed for encoding in Unicode. [30] The letter heads of Kathmandu Metropolitan City, [31] Lalitpur Metropolitan City, [32] Bhaktapur Municipality, [33] Madhyapur Thimi Municipality [34] ascribes its names in Ranjana ...
The Rañjanā script (Lantsa [2]) is an abugida writing system which developed in the 11th century [3] and until the mid-20th century was used in an area from Nepal to Tibet by the Newar people, the historic inhabitants of the Kathmandu Valley, to write Sanskrit and Newar (Nepal Bhasa).
The Bhujimol script (or Bhujinmol, Devanagari: भुजिमोल or भुजिंमोल) is the most ancient form of Nepal script. It is also one of the most common varieties of the Nepal alphabet. [2] The Bhujimol script has been used to write Nepal Bhasa and Sanskrit.
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.
Nepal Bhasa is currently written in Nepal Lipi, Ranjana Lipi and Devanagari script. The script originally used, Nepal Lipi or "Nepalese script", fell into disuse at the beginning of the 20th century when writing in the language and the script was banned, which resulted in emergence of Devanagari script. [ 139 ]
They number more than 170, and are carved in Sanskrit language and Gupta script. [2] [3] Inscriptions from the 14th century onwards, which are the most numerous, are in Newar language (Nepal Bhasa) and Nepal script. [4] The earliest dated inscription in Nepal Bhasa is dated Nepal Era 293 (1173 AD). [5]
Classical Newar or Classical Nepal Bhasa (Modern Newar: pulāṃ bhāy, ' old language ') also known as Old Newar, is the vernacular and literary form of Nepal Bhasa used prior to the 19th century. [1] The term is most generally used to describe the form of Nepal Bhasa used in manuscripts and other sources from the Malla dynasty. [1] [2] [3]
Tutah bwanegu (Nepal Bhasa:तुतः ब्वनेगु) is a ritual of reading and enunciating stotras practiced in Newar Buddhism. [1] Most of these stotras were originally written in Sanskrit. [2] However, many of these have been translated into Nepalbhasha. The stotras which have been translated into Nepalbhasha are as follows: [1]