Writing in Devanaagari

Today my mother taught Supriya how to write all our names in Devanaagari. Supriya has been copying them over and over again, trying to cement it in. It's a lot to take in in one day, but she has managed to absorb a lot. (Go to this Wikipedia article for more.) It's an abugida script (that sounds so esoteric! I learned that word from the Wikipedia article.) - where you start with a basic consonant sound and modify it using diacritical modifiers to denote different vowel sounds. I explained to Supriya the difference between this system and the standard alphabetical way of doing things. It's rather obvious when you write Devanaagari and I think Supriya got it.