Balbodh

Bāḷabōdha बाळबोध
Balbodh variant of the Devanagari script (vowels top three rows, consonants below)
Script type	Abugida
Period	11th century to present
Direction	Left-to-right
Official script	India Maharashtra
Languages	Marathi, Korku
Related scripts
Parent systems	Egyptian hieroglyphs Proto-Sinaitic Phoenician Aramaic Brāhmī Gupta Siddhaṃ Nāgarī Devanāgarī Bāḷabōdha
Sister systems	Moḍī
ISO 15924
ISO 15924	Deva (315), ​Devanagari (Nagari)
Unicode
Unicode alias	Devanagari
Unicode range	U+0900–U+097F Devanagari, U+A8E0–U+A8FF Devanagari Extended, U+11B00–11B5F Devanagari Extended-A, U+1CD0–U+1CFF Vedic Extensions

Balbodh consonants in the book A grammar of the Mahratta language (1805).

Balabodh (Marathi: बाळबोध, bāḷabōdha, Marathi pronunciation: [baːɭboːd̪ʱ], translation: understood by children) is a slightly modified style of the Devanagari script used to write the Marathi language and the Korku language. What sets balabodha apart from the Devanagari script used for other languages is the more frequent and regular use of both ळ /ɭ/ (retroflex lateral flap) and र्‍ (called the eyelash reph / raphar). Additionally, Balbodh style has ऍ/ॲ and ऑ as adaptations to pronounce [æ] and [ɒ] in English-based words. Another distinctive feature is the use of Anusvara over trailing अ, denoting lengthening of the trailing vowel.