The Devanagari script is used for over 120 languages, including Hindi, Marathi, Nepali, Pali, Konkani, Bodo, Sindhi and Maithili among other languages and dialects, making it one of the most used and adopted writing systems in the world.  The Devanagari script is also used for classical Sanskrit texts. The Devanagari script is closely related to the Nandinagari script commonly found in numerous ancient manuscripts of South India,  and it is distantly related to a number of southeast Asian scripts. 

Devanāgarī, ( Sanskrit: deva, “god,” and nāgarī (lipi), “[script] of the city”) also called Nāgarī , script used to write the Sanskrit, Prākrit, Hindi, Marathi, and Nepali languages, developed from the North Indian monumental script known as Guptaand ultimately from the Brāhmī alphabet, from which all modern Indianwriting systems are derived.