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Answer for the clue "A syllabic script used in writing Sanskrit and Hindi ", 10 letters:
devanagari

Word definitions for devanagari in dictionaries

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Devanagari \De`va*na"ga*ri\, n. [Skr. d[=e]van[=a]gar[=i]; d[=e]va god + nagara city, i. e., divine city.] The script or characters in which Sanskrit and Hindi are written.

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Devanagari is a Unicode block containing characters for writing Hindi, Marathi, Sindhi, Nepali and Sanskrit . In its original incarnation, the code points U+0900..U+0954 were a direct copy of the characters A0-F4 from the 1988 ISCII standard. The Bengali ...

Usage examples of devanagari.

Hindi, a language spoken in India and written in the Devanagari script.

Until the invention of printing, Sanskrit was written in regional alphabets but with the adoption of type the north Indian alphabet known as Devanagari became standardised.

I am not suredo you understand that the northern tongues can be written both in the classical Sanskrit and modern Devanagari script?