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Front Matter
Newa (Pracalit)
Traditional script of the Newar people of Kathmandu Valley.
Traditional script of the Newar people of Kathmandu Valley. Thousands of Sanskrit and Nepal Bhasa Buddhist manuscripts are preserved in this script. Suppressed under the Shah and Rana regimes in the 18th–19th centuries, it was revived by a 20th-century cultural renaissance movement.
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The Letters
Signs · Unicode · TypesSample GlyphsClick to copy
Unicode
Range 1U+11400–U+1147F
Total signs97
Unicode Blocks
Not in Unicode
No Unicode block data available for this script.
Glyph evolution
Form change over time
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Reading Mechanics
Direction · Method↔
Direction
Left to Right (LTR)
왼쪽에서 오른쪽으로 표기.
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System
Abugida
⌨
Input method
Direct Unicode input
Keyboard layout
Standard IME · input chart
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The Lineage
Family · DescendantsPhylogeny
Descendants of hieroglyphs
Phylogeny
Related scripts
Ancestors · Descendants · Family
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