• 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...
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  • the previous vowel is nasalized. In Hindi, it is replaced in writing by anusvara when it is written above a consonant that carries a vowel symbol that extends...
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  • vowel. In general, an anusvara at the end of a word in an Indian language is transliterated as ṁ in ISO 15919, but a Malayalam anusvara at the end of a word...
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  • transliterate anusvara as ṁ, while ALA-LC and IAST use ṃ for it. However, ISO 15919 provides guidance towards disambiguating between various anusvara situations...
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  • write Sanskrit or Pali, and not used in writing Thai. In Sanskrit, the anusvāra indicates a certain kind of nasal sound. In Thai this is written as an...
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    the final nasal anusvāra ं ṃ and the final fricative visarga ः ḥ (called अं aṃ and अः aḥ). Masica (1991:146) notes of the anusvāra in Sanskrit that "there...
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  • in the flexional endings including: -īhi, -ūhi and -īsu A sound called anusvāra (Skt.; Pali: niggahīta), represented by the letter ṁ (ISO 15919) or ṃ (ALA-LC)...
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  • The overdot is also used in the Devanagari script, where it is called anusvara. In mathematics and physics, when using Newton's notation the dot denotes...
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  • ha·l Pāṇini, The Aṣṭādhyāyī Visarga ḥ ः is an allophone of r and s, and anusvara ṃ, Devanagari ं of any nasal, both in pausa (i.e., the nasalised vowel)...
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  • The vowels table, the significant difference is for the sonorants and Anusvāra, visarga are capitalized instead of their diacritics. Finally, it is fairly...
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    is a conditioned variant of n occurring next to palatal obstruents. The anusvara that Sanskrit deploys is a conditioned alternant of postvocalic nasals...
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    Sanskrit accusative case ending, which is also /m/ (or, allophonically, anusvara due to the requirements of the sandhi word-combining rules) in the neuter...
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    prodelision of the initial vowel.) Om may also be written ओं, with an anusvāra reflecting the pronunciation of [õː] in languages such as Hindi. In languages...
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    syllables. In contrast, bija mantras are one-syllabled, typically ending in anusvara (a simple nasal sound). These are derived from the name of a deity; for...
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  • Brahmic scripts used for most Indic languages mark nasalization with the anusvāra (◌ं), homophonically used for homorganic nasalization in a consonant cluster...
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    which are treated as vowels and may be short or long, and two part-vowels, anusvara ⟨◌𑌂⟩ ṁ and visarga, ⟨◌𑌃⟩ ḥ. Independent vowel letters are used for word-initial...
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    consonants ಙ (ṅa), ಞ (ña), ಣ (ṇa), ನ (na), and ಮ (ma) are usually written as an anusvara ಂ when preceding another consonant rather than a consonant conjunct. For...
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    This article contains Indic text. Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks or boxes, misplaced vowels or missing conjuncts instead...
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  • Sanskrit texts. In the traditional order of Sanskrit sounds, visarga and anusvāra appear between vowels and stop consonants. The precise pronunciation of...
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    by diacritic marks. Long vowels are marked with the diacritic ⟨𐨌⟩. An anusvara ⟨𐨎⟩ indicates nasalization of the vowel or a nasal segment following the...
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  • अं ṁ (anusvāra) अः ḥ (visarga) अँ m̐ (candrabindu) अऀ (inverted candrabindu) ऽ ’ (avagraha) क़ (nuqta) क् (virāma) ३ 3 (pluta) ᳵ ẖ (jihvāmūlīya) ᳶ ḫ (upadhmānīya)...
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    well as the retroflex ⟨ဏ⟩ /ɳ/ (used in Pali loans) and nasalisation mark anusvara demonstrated here above ka (က → ကံ) which most often stands in for a homorganic...
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    strictest sense of the term" and its orthography too is inconsistent about anusvara, visarga, notation of double consonants and the ḷ retroflex. These and...
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  • The Sanskrit Library Phonetic basic encoding scheme (SLP1) is an ASCII transliteration scheme for the Sanskrit language from and to the Devanagari script...
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  • combining candrabindu nasal vowel diacritic of the Telugu script. ఄ: Combining anusvara above. ౷: Siddham sign. ౿: Tuumu sign. There are five classifications of...
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    a vowel length marker, a diphthong marker, and one of the diacritics, anusvara or visarga. Soyombo contains the full set of letters to reproduce Mongolian...
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    Characters include both human and talking animal characters. The letter ṃ (anusvara) in Hindi usually represents a nasal consonant homorganic with the following...
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    Unlike Sanskrit, anusvara has great importance in Konkani. A characteristic of Middle Indo-Aryan dialects, Konkani still retains the anusvara on the initial...
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    virtually replaced the old method of punctuation. Telugu has full-zero ("anusvāra" or "sunna" ) ( ం ), half-zero ("arthanusvāra" or "candrabindu" or "ara-sunna"...
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  • transcription, so they are not always included in the Odia alphabet. The anusvara and candrabindu diacritics are used to indicate nasalisation. A visarga...
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