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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;...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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divided his work into five chapters,
covering samjnā, sandhi, ajanta,
halanta and kriya. In the 19th century,
Chinnaya Suri
wrote a
condensed work on...
- 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)...
- have been
divided into five chapters,
covering samjnā, sandhi, ajanta,
halanta and kriya.
Yelakuchi Bala-sarasvati
wrote a
Telugu gloss (commentary) on...
