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The Devanagari Alphabet (Get the Shockwave Flash Plugin) The Devanagari alphabet is used for: Hindi, the official language of India Sanskrit, the primary South Asian classical language Marathi, the state language of the Indian state of Maharashtra Nepali, the official language of the Kingdom of Nepal Note: It is also used for a number of other Indian languages and dialects and is closely related to most of the scripts in use today in South Asia, Southeast Asia and Tibet.

Learn to Write the Devanagari Letters The Devanagari letters are formed using strokes in a particular direction and order. For legible Hindi handwriting these steps should be carefully followed. Select one of the following groups: vowels velar consonants palatal consonants retroflex consonants dental consonants labial consonants semi-vowels sibilants