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Candrabindu

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candravindunounAlternative form of candrabindu. [A diacritic used in Indic scripts like Devanagari (ँ), Bengali (ঁ), Gurmukhi ( ਁ), Gujarati (ઁ), Odia (ଁ), and Telugu (ఁ) scripts. It usually indicates that the previous vowel is nasalized. Shown here over the letter "ka" (or in the case of Telugu, after the "ka"):]
chandravindunounAlternative form of candrabindu. [A diacritic used in Indic scripts like Devanagari (ँ), Bengali (ঁ), Gurmukhi ( ਁ), Gujarati (ઁ), Odia (ଁ), and Telugu (ఁ) scripts. It usually indicates that the previous vowel is nasalized. Shown here over the letter "ka" (or in the case of Telugu, after the "ka"):]
anusvaranounA diacritic used in Indic scripts as a nasal consonant.
nuqtanounA diacritic used in the Devanagari, Gurmukhi, and other Indian scripts for sounds not present in the original scripts, including sounds borrowed from Arabic, Persian, and English.
halantnounA diacritic used in most writing systems of the Indian subcontinent to signify the lack of an inherent vowel.
shaddanounA diacritic (◌ّ) used in the Arabic script to indicate gemination of a consonant.
diacriticalOf, pertaining to, or serving as a diacritic.
viramanounA diacritic used in most writing systems of the Indian subcontinent to signify the lack of an inherent vowel.
circumflexnounA diacritical mark (ˆ) placed over a vowel in the orthography or transliteration of many languages to change its pronunciation; while in some other languages over a consonant.
matranounThe characteristic horizontal line drawn above characters in some Indic scripts.
diacriticnounA special mark added to a letter to indicate a different pronunciation, stress, tone, or meaning.
diacritical hooknounAn ogonek (˛).
inherent vowelnoun(linguistics) In an abugida, the vowel sound (often a schwa in Brahmic scripts) appended by default to a consonant symbol lacking a vowel diacritic.
triangular colonnounA diacritical mark (ː), used in IPA, consisting of two triangles, and marking the preceding phoneme as long.
diaeresisnoun(linguistics, prosody) (orthography) The diacritical mark consisting of two dots (¨) placed over a letter (especially the second of two consecutive vowels) to indicate that it is sounded separately, usually as a distinct syllable.
dakutennounA diacritic (゛) used with Japanese kana to mark a consonant as voiced.
brevenoun(orthography, printing) A semicircular diacritical mark (˘) placed above a vowel, commonly used to mark its quantity as short.
avagrahanounA symbol (ऽ) used in the Devanagari script and other Indian scripts, used to mark vocalic gemination or the elision of the inherent vowel a in the process of sandhi in Sanskrit.
diacritical marknoun(orthography, typography) A symbol in writing used with a letter to indicate a different pronunciation, stress, tone, or meaning.
short inoun(linguistics) The vowel sound /ɪ/, as in the words pit and stick.

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