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Anusvara (Sanskrit: अनुस्वार, IAST: anusvāra, IPA: [ɐn̪usʋaːrɐh, ənʊswaːr]), also known as Bindu (Hindi: बिंदु, IPA: [bin̪d̪uː]), is a symbol used in many Indic scripts to mark a type of nasal sound, typically transliterated ṃ or ṁ in standards like ISO 15919 and IAST. Depending on its location in the ...
Although Hinduism and Buddhism are no longer the major religions of Indonesia, Sanskrit, the language vehicle for these religions, is still held in high esteem, and its status is comparable with that of Latin in English and other Western European languages.
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Devanagari is an Indic script used for many Indo-Aryan languages of North India and Nepal, including Hindi, Marathi and Nepali, which was the script used to write Classical Sanskrit.
Anusvara and visarga are also used. In the relevant Tai languages, a short vowel in an open syllable includes an underlyinɡ ɡlottal stop. Additional short vowels not shown above may be synthesised from the corresponding long vowel by appending visarga for open syllables (as shown for Vo) or applying mai sat ( ) for closed syllables (as shown ...
It is a special consonant letter, different from a "normal" consonant letter, in that it is never followed by an inherent vowel or another vowel. In general, an anusvara at the end of a word in an Indian language is transliterated as ṁ in ISO 15919, but a Malayalam anusvara at the end of a word is transliterated as m without a dot.
Nineteenth-century texts used a small anusvara (ᤲ) to mark nasalization. This was used interchangeably with ᤱ /ŋ/. The sign ᥀ was used for the exclamatory particle ᤗᤥ (/lo/).
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