The Eastern Nagari script is an Abugida system of writing belonging to the Brahmic family of scripts which use is associated with the two main languages Assamese and Bengali and other related variants such as, Bishnupriya Manipuri,  Maithili, Mising, Meitei Manipuri, Sylheti, and Chittagonian languages. Many other languages like Khasi, Bodo, Karbi etc were also written in this script in the past.