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Anusvara (Sanskrit: अनुस्वार, IAST: anusvāra), also known as Bindu (Hindi: बिंदु), is a symbol used in many Indic scripts to mark a type of nasal sound, typically transliterated ṃ or ṁ in standards like ISO 15919 and IAST. Depending on its location in the word and the language for which it is used, its exact ...
Chandrabindu (IAST: candrabindu, lit. ' moon dot ' in Sanskrit) is a diacritic sign with the form of a dot inside the lower half of a circle. It is used in the Devanagari (ँ), Bengali-Assamese (ঁ), Gujarati (ઁ), Odia (ଁ), Tamil ( 𑌁 Extension used from Grantha), Telugu (ఁ), Kannada ( ಁ), Malayalam ( ഁ), Sinhala ( ඁ), Javanese ( ꦀ) and other scripts.
No. 117-Sinhala Walahawiddhawewa: Horowpothana: 6 June 2008: The drip ledged caves [4] Kuda Dambulu Raja Maha Vihara: No. 117-Sinhala Walahawiddhawewa: Horowpothana: 23 January 2009: The two drip ledged rock caves and the ancient flight of steps [2] Kudagal Vihara: Orugoda Yaya: No. 436, Dhelnegama: Thambuttegama: 23 January 2009
The anusvara that Sanskrit deploys is a conditioned alternant of post-vocalic nasals, under certain sandhi conditions. [228] The visarga is a word-final or morpheme-final conditioned alternant of s and r under certain sandhi conditions. [228] The voiceless aspirated series is also an innovation in Sanskrit but is rarer than the other three ...
In the Burmese script, the visarga (variously called ရှေ့ကပေါက် shay ga pauk, ဝစ္စနစ်လုံးပေါက် wizza nalone pauk, or ရှေ့ဆီး shay zi and represented with two dots to the right of the letter as း), when joined to a letter, creates the high tone.
There are irregularities, however. फ़ f and ज़ z, which are found in both Persian and English loans, are transcribed with English Braille (and international) ⠋ and ⠵, as shown in the chart in the previous section, while the internal allophonic developments of ड़ ṛ and ढ़ ṛh are respectively an independent letter ⠻ in braille and a derivation from that letter rather ...
The Sinhala script (Sinhala: සිංහල අක්ෂර මාලාව, romanized: Siṁhala Akṣara Mālāwa), also known as Sinhalese script, is a writing system used by the Sinhalese people and most Sri Lankans in Sri Lanka and elsewhere to write the Sinhala language as well as the liturgical languages Pali and Sanskrit. [3]
Some of them are the International Alphabet of Sanskrit Transliteration or "IAST system", [19] "Indian languages Transliteration" or ITRANS (uses upper case alphabets suited for ASCII keyboards), [20] and the extension of IAST intended for non-Sanskrit languages of the Indian region called the National Library at Kolkata romanisation.