VIRAMA

Virama

Virama is a generic term for the diacritic in many Brahmic scripts, including Devanagari and Eastern Nagari script, that is used to suppress the inherent vowel that otherwise occurs with every consonant letter. The name is Sanskrit for "cessation, termination, end". As a Sanskrit word, it is used in place of several language-specific terms, such as halant, hôshonto, halanta, pulli, chandrakkala, halanta, halanta, a that and phinthu .

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virama

Noun

  1. A diacritic used in most writing systems of the Indian subcontinent to signify the lack of an inherent vowel.
  2. A sign which serves the same purpose in any writing system.


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