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Virama (Sanskrit: विराम/हलन्त, romanized: virāma/halanta ्) is a Sanskrit phonological concept to suppress the inherent vowel that otherwise occurs with...

verb form the final schwa is always retained unless the schwa-cancelling halanta is present. हुन्छ (huncha, 'it happens'), भएर (bhaera, 'in happening so;...

absence of the inherent vowel in the consonant is marked by a virama or halanta sign below the consonant. In Eastern India, a derivative of Siddhaṃ script...

written by adding to the character. A mark, known in Sanskrit as a virama/halanta/hasanta, can be used to indicate the absence of an inherent vowel, although...

making a final consonant (such as ꓠ) possible without necessity of a halanta sign: 凉粉 ꓡꓬꓮꓳ ꓩꓷꓠ reads as /li̯ɛw fən/ rather than as ꓡꓬ ꓮ ꓳ ꓩꓷ ꓠ /li̯ɑ...

(1991:161–162). Not all of these form conjuncts (these instead show a halanta under the first letter), and the number that do will vary with the Devanagari...

stroke, such as ಕ್ k. This silencing diacritic and process is known as ಹಲಂತ halanta, whereas the resulting letter is called an ಅರ್ಧಾಕ್ಷರ ardhākshara (lit. 'half...

Ahom Sign Killer (U+1172B) Dogra Sign Virama (U+11839) Dives Akuru Sign Halanta (U+1193D) Dives Akuru Virama (U+1193E) Nandinagari Sign Virama (U+119E0)...

divided his work into five chapters, covering samjnā, sandhi, ajanta, halanta and kriya. In the 19th century, Chinnaya Suri wrote a condensed work on...

and the visarga double dot, punctuation symbols and others such as the halanta sign. Other scripts such as Gujarati, Bangla-Assamese, Odia and major south...

retained within the words unless deletion is signaled by the use of a halanta(्). सुलोचना (a name) is pronounced sulocnā by Hindi speakers while sulocanā...

have been divided into five chapters, covering samjnā, sandhi, ajanta, halanta and kriya. Yelakuchi Bala-sarasvati wrote a Telugu gloss (commentary) on...

loanword from Anatolian is Armenian xalam, "skull", cognate to Hittite ḫalanta, "head". In 1985, the Soviet linguist Igor M. Diakonoff noted the presence...

consonants are transcribed by adding a nuqta ⟨𑥃⟩ to certain letters. The halanta has no independent form because it is not a vowel. It is a diacritic that...

Sanskrit holdover originally representing /h/. For example, 𑂍𑂂 kaḥ. 𑂹 halanta A virama removes a consonant's inherent a and in some cases forms consonant...

uses ṭippī instead. Older texts may follow other conventions. The ਹਲੰਤ halantă, or ਹਲੰਦ halandă, ( ੍ U+0A4D) character is not used when writing Punjabi...

verb form the final schwa is always retained unless the schwa-cancelling halanta is present. हुन्छ (huncha, 'it happens'), भएर (bhaera, 'in happening so;...

verb form the final schwa is always retained unless the schwa-cancelling halanta is present. हुन्छ ("huncha", it happens), भएर ("bhaera", in happening so/therefore)...

ड ḍ ढ ḍh ... Transliteration of Hindi, Marathi & Nepali (PDF), ... ◌् halanta vowelless vowelless ... Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain) (1879)...

heading, are placed in parentheses. In Hindi (written in Devanagari), halanta is not used with the last letter when a word ends in a consonant. Some...