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  2. Virama - Wikipedia

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    Pinthu is akin to Sanskrit bindu, and means "point" or "dot". It is used to mark a syllable as closed, and it is only used in Thai script when writing Pali or Sanskrit. nikkhahit: นฤคหิต / นิคหิต ํ Nikkhahit represents what was originally anusvāra in Sanskrit.

  3. Devanagari - Wikipedia

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    A vowel combines with a consonant in their diacritic form. For example, the vowel आ (ā) combines with the consonant क् (k) to form the syllabic letter का (kā), with halant (cancel sign) removed and added vowel sign which is indicated by diacritics. The vowel अ (a) combines with the consonant क् (k) to form क (ka) with

  4. Harvard-Kyoto - Wikipedia

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    Sanskrit text encoded in the Harvard-Kyoto convention can be unambiguously converted to Devanāgarī, with two exceptions: Harvard-Kyoto does not distinguish अइ (a followed by i, in separate syllables, i.e. in hiatus) from ऐ (the diphthong ai) or अउ (a followed by u) from औ (the diphthong au). However such a vowel hiatus would occur ...

  5. Velthuis - Wikipedia

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    The Velthuis system of transliteration is an ASCII transliteration scheme for the Sanskrit language from and to the Devanagari script. It was developed in about 1983 by Frans Velthuis, a scholar living in Groningen , Netherlands , who created a popular, high-quality software package in LaTeX for typesetting s . [ 1 ]

  6. Sanskrit grammar - 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. [ 18 ]

  7. Sanskrit verbs - Wikipedia

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    Sanskrit inherits two suffixes from Proto-Indo-European used to form verbal adjectives and the past passive participle: *-tó-and *-nó-. The first can be seen in the root *gʷem- 'to come' [ q ] forming *gʷm̥-tó- , which in Sanskrit becomes gatá- '(having) gone', and in Latin ventus .

  8. Parallel text - Wikipedia

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    In the field of translation studies a bitext is a merged document composed of both source- and target-language versions of a given text. Bitexts are generated by a piece of software called an alignment tool, or a bitext tool, which automatically aligns the original and translated versions of the same text. The tool generally matches these two ...

  9. 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 ]