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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.
Newari Dev. Rom. visarga: lyuphuti: अः: aḥ Usually used to indicate that a vowel is followed by an h-sound. In Newari it is used instead of marking a long vowel. candrabindu: milaphuti: अँ: am̐ Marks a nasal vowel. anusvāra: sinhaphuti: अं: aṃ In other words, it can be seen as a combination of visarga and chandrabindu.
A Unicode character set was initially proposed in May 2011. [3] A previous tentative mapping of the first SMP also included the script [4] and later versions include the proposal. [5]
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).
Santipur OT is a beautiful font reflecting a very early [medieval era] typesetting style for Devanagari. Sanskrit 2003 [84] is a good all-around font and has more ligatures than most fonts, though students will probably find the spacing of the CDAC-Gist Surekh [68] font makes for quicker comprehension and reading.
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The inscriptions from the Licchavi period includes Newari words. Hence, it indicated that Newari was the common language during Licchavi dynasty although the official use of the period was Sanskrit, but Nepal Bhasa was already in use. [9] The earliest dated stone inscription in Thakuri dynasty is in Newari, dated Nepal Sambat 293 (1173 CE). [10]
In 1909, Nisthananda Bajracharya published the first printed book in Newari, Ek Bishanti Prajnaparamita, a Buddhist text. Another major change was the adoption of Devanagari script to write the language instead of Nepal alphabets because of the availability of Devanagari printing type.