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  2. Ra (Indic) - Wikipedia

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    Ra is a consonant of Indic abugidas.In modern Indic scripts, Ra is derived from the early "Ashoka" Brahmi letter after having gone through the Gupta letter .Most Indic scripts have differing forms of Ra when used in combination with other consonants, including subjoined and repha forms.

  3. Russian alphabet - Wikipedia

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    The letters were indeed originally omitted from the sample alphabet, printed in a western-style serif font, presented in Peter 's edict, along with the letters з (replaced by ѕ ), и and ф (the diacriticized letter й was also removed), but were reinstated except ѱ and ѡ under pressure from the Russian Orthodox Church in a later variant of ...

  4. Crossword abbreviations - Wikipedia

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    Taking this one stage further, the clue word can hint at the word or words to be abbreviated rather than giving the word itself. For example: "About" for C or CA (for "circa"), or RE. "Say" for EG, used to mean "for example". More obscure clue words of this variety include: "Model" for T, referring to the Model T.

  5. Help:Pronunciation respelling key - Wikipedia

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    Respelled syllables are visually separated by hyphens ("-"), and the stress on a syllable is indicated by capital letters. For example, the word "pronunciation" (/ p r ə ˌ n ʌ n s i ˈ eɪ ʃ ən /) is respelled prə-NUN-see-AY-shən. In this example, the primary and secondary stress are not distinguished because the difference is automatic.

  6. Ra (disambiguation) - Wikipedia

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    Ra (Javanese) (ꦫ), a letter in the Javanese script; Ra (kana), the Japanese kana ら and ラ; ረ and ራ, Amharic letters that can be read as variations of ra, also related to the Semitic resh; Resh or rāʾ, 10th letter of Arabic alphabet; Ռ or ṙa, the 28th letter in the Armenian alphabet; र, ड़', ढ़, and र्ह, Devanagari ...

  7. Arabic alphabet - Wikipedia

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    Generally, letters in the same word are linked together on both sides by short horizontal lines, but six letters (و ,ز ,ر ,ذ ,د ,ا) can only be linked to their preceding letter. In addition, some letter combinations are written as ligatures (special shapes), notably lām-alif لا , [ 6 ] which is the only mandatory ligature (the ...

  8. Guttural R - Wikipedia

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    To denote the guttural r in the dialects, the letter "r" is often replaced by "gh" or "q" in informal writing [citation needed]. Standard Malay words with voiced velar fricative , such as loghat (dialect) and ghaib (invisible, mystical) are mostly Arabic loanwords spelled in their origin language with the letter غ in the Jawi alphabet.

  9. Scribal abbreviation - Wikipedia

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    A wave-like or omicron-like mark stands for a missing r (rhotic consonant) or ra. Sometimes, a similar wave-like mark at the end of a word indicated a missing -a or syllable ending in -a. This is, however, a coincidence, as one of the marks stems from a small r-like mark and the other from an a-like one.