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Devanagari
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The most comprehensive collection of links to transliteration and Devanagari fonts is found at Indic Language Fonts, regularly updated by Luc Devroye, who hosts the greatest font-related website on the internet. Links to font sites are ... found at the Sanskrit Documents Site, the greatest site for Sanskrit texts in Devanagari and ITX encoding on the internet.
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Devanagari is classified as an abugida, which means that each character represents a syllable, not a single letter as in English. If the character is a consonant, the implicit vowel following it is assumed to be a, unless modified by special vowel signs added above, below, after or even before the character.
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As a Brahmic abugida, the fundamental principle of the Devanagari writing system is that each base consonantal character carries within it an inherent vowel a [ə]. That is, an unmarked consonant sign is assumed to represent that consonant plus the inherent vowel;[1] e.g. क ka, कन kana, कनय kanaya, etc. Flowing from this core feature are a number of other features.
Devanagari wird von links nach rechts geschrieben. Im Sanskrit werden einzelne Worte ohne Abstand zusammengeschrieben, solcherart, dass die obere Linie nicht unterbrochen wird, auch wenn es von dieser Regel Abweichungen gibt. Die obere Linie (Rekha) wird in der Devanagari in folgenden Konsonantzeichen unterbrochen: tha, dha, bha.
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Western scholars in the 19th century adopted Devanagari for printed editions of Sanskrit texts. The editio princeps of the Rigveda by Max Müller was in Devanagari, a typographical tour de force at the time. Müller's London typesetters competed with their Petersburg peers working on Böhtlingk's and
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