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Dzongkha (Tibetan) vs Hindi / Nepali (Devanagari)
Dzongkha (Tibetan) and Hindi / Nepali (Devanagari) sit in the same corner of the writing-system map — Grafle's Brahmic / Indic group — and players mix them up constantly. Here's the fastest way to tell them apart.
The tell
Tibetan-style letters hang from the top line with sharp descenders and dot separators (་); Devanagari's bar connects boxier letters with no dots.
Side by side
Dzongkha (Tibetan)
འགྲོ་བ་མི་རིགས་ག་ར་དབང་ཆ་འདྲ་མཉམ་འབད་སྐྱེས་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན།
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས།
རྫོང་ཁ་ཡིག་གུ་མཛེས་ཏོག་ཏོ་ཨིན།
Dzongkha (Tibetan)'s own tells
- Letters hang from a top line with sharp descenders, and syllables are separated by raised dots (་).
On signs in:
- Bhutan
Hindi / Nepali (Devanagari)
सभी मनुष्य जन्म से स्वतंत्र और समान हैं।
नमस्ते, आप कैसे हैं?
सत्यमेव जयते।
Hindi / Nepali (Devanagari)'s own tells
- A continuous horizontal bar runs along the top, connecting the letters into words.
On signs in:
- India
- Nepal