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  2. Help:IPA/Sanskrit - Wikipedia

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    The charts below show the way in which the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) represents Vedic and Classical Sanskrit and Pali pronunciations in Wikipedia articles. For a guide to adding IPA characters to Wikipedia articles, see Template:IPA, and Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Pronunciation § Entering IPA characters.

  3. Virama - Wikipedia

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    It is used to mark as silent vowels or consonants that were originally pronounced, but have become silenced in Thai pronunciation (mostly from Sanskrit and Old Khmer). This diacritic is sometimes used in loanwords from European languages to mark final consonants in consonant clusters (e.g. want as วอนท์).

  4. International Alphabet of Sanskrit Transliteration - Wikipedia

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    Scholars commonly use IAST in publications that cite textual material in Sanskrit, Pāḷi and other classical Indian languages. IAST is also used for major e-text repositories such as SARIT, Muktabodha, GRETIL, and sanskritdocuments.org.

  5. Help talk:IPA/Sanskrit - Wikipedia

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    For the Sanskrit alphabet छ, "beachhead" is more appropriate, as compared to "'chew" as the "ch" in the latter is more like च and For the Sanskrit alphabet ऐ, "high" is more appropriate, as compared to "hi" as the "i" in the latter is more like आइ (IPA: aɪ) according to this.-1Firang 17:50, 11 June 2023 (UTC)

  6. Devanagari - Wikipedia

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    When Devanāgarī is used for writing languages other than Sanskrit, conjuncts are used mostly with Sanskrit words and loan words. Native words typically use the basic consonant and native speakers know to suppress the vowel when it is conventional to do so. For example, the native Hindi word karnā is written करना (ka-ra-nā). [60]

  7. Brahmic scripts - Wikipedia

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    A mark, known in Sanskrit as a virama/halanta/hasanta, can be used to indicate the absence of an inherent vowel, although it is rarely used. Each vowel has two forms, an independent form when not attached to a consonant, and a dependent form, when attached to a consonant.

  8. Sanskrit - Wikipedia

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    The Sanskrit language accepts such alterations within it, but offers formal rules for the sandhi of any two words next to each other in the same sentence or linking two sentences. The external sandhi rules state that similar short vowels coalesce into a single long vowel, while dissimilar vowels form glides or undergo diphthongization. [ 229 ]

  9. Malayalam script - Wikipedia

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    Corresponds to Devanagari avagraha, used when a Sanskrit phrase containing an avagraha is written in Malayalam script. The symbol indicates the elision of the word-initial vowel a after a word that ends in ā, ē, or ō, and is transliterated as an apostrophe (’), or sometimes as a colon + an apostrophe (:’).