Editing Ranjana script (section)

{{Short description|Abugida writing system}}
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{{Infobox writing system
| name        = Rañjanā
| type        = [[Abugida]]
| languages   = [[Newar language|Newar (Nepal Bhasa)]]<br />[[Sanskrit]]<br />[[Standard Tibetan|Tibetan]]
| time        = c. 1100–present
| region      = Nepal and India
| fam1        = [[Proto-Sinaitic script]]
| fam2        = [[Phoenician alphabet]]
| fam3        = [[Aramaic script]]
| fam4        = [[Brāhmī script|Brāhmī]]
| fam5        = [[Gupta script|Gupta]]
| fam6        = [[Siddhaṃ script|Siddham]]<ref name="masica">{{cite book |last1=Masica |first1=Colin |title=The Indo-Aryan languages |date=1993 |page=143}}</ref>
| fam7        = [[Nepalese scripts|Nepalese]]
| sisters     = [[Prachalit Nepal alphabet|Prachalit]]<br />[[Bhujimol script|Bhujimol]]
| children    = [[Soyombo alphabet|Soyombo]]
| iso15924    = Ranj
| sample      = Shukla Ranjana Lipi II.svg
| imagesize   = 250px
| caption     = 'Ranjana Lipi' in Ranjana script
| direction   = Left-to-right
}}
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The '''Rañjanā script''' (Lantsa<ref name="Omniglot">[http://www.omniglot.com/writing/ranjana.htm Omniglot]{{Sps|date=May 2017}}</ref>) is an [[abugida]] writing system which developed in the 11th century<ref name="Jwajalapa">[http://www.jwajalapa.com/lipi/index.php Jwajalapa]{{Sps|date=May 2017}} {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070310222353/http://www.jwajalapa.com/lipi/index.php |date=2007-03-10 }}</ref> and until the mid-20th century was used in an area from Nepal to Tibet by the [[Newar people]], the historic inhabitants of the [[Kathmandu Valley]], to write [[Sanskrit]] and [[Newar language|Newar (Nepal Bhasa)]]. Nowadays it is also used in [[Buddhist]] monasteries in [[China]], especially in the [[Tibetan Buddhist]] areas within the [[Tibet Autonomous Region]], [[Sichuan]], [[Yunnan]], [[Qinghai]] and [[Gansu]]; [[Mongolia]], and [[Japan]].<ref name="Jwajalapa"/> It is normally written from left to right but the Kutakshar form is written from top to bottom.<ref name="Jwajalapa"/> It is also considered to be the standard Nepali [[calligraphic]] script.