Mal Paharia uses the Devangari script, and in the chart there are a few examples of words in writing, and translated in English. The Devangari script has 11 vowels and 33 consonants. The script is written from left to right, and it uses headstrokes on the letters. Some exceptions are; jha, tha, dha, bha, a and ā, because there is a break in the headstroke. While writing using the Devangari script, the headstroke is not always used. According to the phonetics used in Devangari script for the Mal Paharia language, vowels are ordered first, meaning each short vowel is following by a longer one. The consonants are ordered with respect to place and in rows. The 'rows' consist of; velar, palatal, retroflex, dental, labial. Each row has different rules, but within each one, the sibilants and fricatives are ordered last. Various letters take different forms when they are in their initial/ final position. For example, the letter "ra" changes location depending on the preceding "ya", or a consonant other than "ya", or a consonant with a vertical stem/ rounded bottom.