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  1. Devanagari

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    Devanagari is the official script for Hindi, the Union language of India, and is used for languages such as Marathi, Nepali, and historically, Kashmiri. Its standardization across these varied languages has required several modern adjustments, including the adoption of characters for sounds absent in classical Sanskrit, such as the aspirated retroflex stop $\text{ङ}$ ($\text{ṛh}$), which primarily exists to accommodate loanwords from certain Dravidian languages [17].
    Despite the rise of digital communication, Devanagari remains robustly supported across computing platfor…