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visarga

Noun

Meaning

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visarga (plural visargas)

(phonology, Sanskrit grammar) the voiceless terminal h in Sanskrit

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Examples

When written in Devanagari, Vedic Sanskrit has an alphabet of 53 letters, including the visarga mark for final aspiration and special letters for kš and jñ, though one of the letters is theoretical and not actually used. Source: Internet

Telugu has full-zero ( anusvāra ) ( ం ), half-zero (arthanusvāra or candrabindu ) (ఁ) and visarga ( ః ) to convey various shades of nasal sounds. la and La, ra and Ra are differentiated. Source: Internet

The anusvara (often called binduva 'zero' ) is represented by one small circle ං (Unicode 0D82), Karunatillake (2004), p. xxxii and the visarga (technically part of the miśra alphabet) by two ඃ (Unicode 0D83). Source: Internet

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