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The script is called Devnaagari, Hindi is a language
Most of those scripts have names that are not the labguage names. There katakana, hiragana, and kanji for Japanese, there's hangul for Korean etc.
With Devnagiri, there is a one-to-many mapping of script to spoken languages, Hindi being only one of them.
The graphic should have just listed scripts instead of spoken languages, since it is really about scripts