Virama
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Virāma is a generic term for the diacritic in many Brahmic scripts 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 in Hindi and hôshonto in Bengali.
[edit] See also
- Sukun, a similar diacritic in Arabic
- Zero consonant
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