Virama
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virama-177-1128584
title:
Virama
text:
Virama is a Sanskrit phonological concept to suppress the inherent vowel that otherwise occurs with every consonant letter, commonly used as a generic term for a codepoint in Unicode, representing either
- halanta, hasanta or explicit virāma, a diacritic in many Brahmic scripts, including the Devanagari and Bengali scripts, or
- saṃyuktākṣara or implicit virama, a conjunct consonant or ligature. Unicode schemes of scripts writing Mainland Southeast Asia languages, such as that of Burmese scr
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description:
Diacritic in many Brahmic scripts
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virama
date created:
2005-02-27T10:28:38Z
date modified:
2024-09-03T22:40:36Z
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