0900 Devanagari 097F

Various signs

ALIAS_LINE { "text": "vaidika adhomukha candrabindu" }

ALIAS_LINE { "text": "anunasika" }

CROSS_REF { "name2": "combining candrabindu", "cp2": "0310" }

ALIAS_LINE { "text": "bindu" }

Independent vowels

COMMENT_LINE { "bullet": "*", "text": "used for short e in Awadhi" }

COMMENT_LINE { "bullet": "*", "text": "also used in Devanagari transliterations of some South Indian and Kashmiri languages by a publisher in Lucknow" }

COMMENT_LINE { "bullet": "*", "text": "Kashmiri, Bihari languages" }

COMMENT_LINE { "bullet": "*", "text": "also used for transcribing Dravidian short e" }

COMMENT_LINE { "bullet": "*", "text": "Kashmiri, Bihari languages" }

COMMENT_LINE { "bullet": "*", "text": "also used for transcribing Dravidian short o" }

Consonants

COMMENT_LINE { "bullet": "*", "text": "for transcribing Dravidian alveolar n" }

COMMENT_LINE { "text": ": 0928 093C" }

COMMENT_LINE { "bullet": "*", "text": "for transcribing Dravidian alveolar r" }

COMMENT_LINE { "bullet": "*", "text": "half form is represented as \"Eyelash RA\"" }

COMMENT_LINE { "text": ": 0930 093C" }

COMMENT_LINE { "bullet": "*", "text": "for transcribing Dravidian l" }

COMMENT_LINE { "text": ": 0933 093C" }

Dependent vowel signs

These dependent vowel signs are used in Kashmiri and in the Bihari languages (Bhojpuri, Magadhi, and Maithili).

Various signs

COMMENT_LINE { "bullet": "*", "text": "for extending the alphabet to new letters" }

Dependent vowel signs

COMMENT_LINE { "bullet": "*", "text": "stands to the left of the consonant" }

ALIAS_LINE { "text": "candra" }

COMMENT_LINE { "bullet": "*", "text": "Kashmiri, Bihari languages" }

COMMENT_LINE { "bullet": "*", "text": "also used for transcribing Dravidian short e" }

COMMENT_LINE { "bullet": "*", "text": "Kashmiri, Bihari languages" }

COMMENT_LINE { "bullet": "*", "text": "also used for transcribing Dravidian short o" }

Virama

ALIAS_LINE { "text": "halant (the preferred Hindi name)" }

COMMENT_LINE { "bullet": "*", "text": "suppresses inherent vowel" }

Dependent vowel signs

COMMENT_LINE { "bullet": "*", "text": "character has historic use only" }

COMMENT_LINE { "bullet": "*", "text": "combines with E to form AI, with AA to form O, and with O to form AU" }

COMMENT_LINE { "bullet": "*", "text": "Kashmiri, Bihari languages" }

Sign

CROSS_REF { "name2": "om symbol", "cp2": "1F549" }

Vedic tone marks

ALIAS_LINE { "text": "Vedic tone svarita" }

COMMENT_LINE { "bullet": "*", "text": "mostly used for svarita, with rare use for udatta" }

COMMENT_LINE { "bullet": "*", "text": "used also in Vedic texts written in other scripts" }

CROSS_REF { "name2": "vedic tone double svarita", "cp2": "1CDA" }

ALIAS_LINE { "text": "Vedic tone anudatta" }

COMMENT_LINE { "bullet": "*", "text": "used also in Vedic texts written in other scripts" }

CROSS_REF { "name2": "vedic tone kathaka anudatta", "cp2": "1CDC" }

Accent marks

These accent marks were originally intended for Latin transliteration of Sanskrit, but 0300 and 0301 should be used instead. These two accents should not be used with the Devanagari script; they have no Indic shaping properties.

CROSS_REF { "name2": "combining grave accent", "cp2": "0300" }

CROSS_REF { "name2": "combining acute accent", "cp2": "0301" }

Dependent vowel sign

COMMENT_LINE { "bullet": "*", "text": "used in transliteration of Avestan" }

Dependent vowel signs for Kashmiri

Additional consonants

These eight consonants with nuktas are listed in CompositionExclusions.txt. That means that they do not recompose during normalization. The NFC form is the same as the decomposed sequence.

COMMENT_LINE { "text": ": 0915 093C" }

COMMENT_LINE { "text": ": 0916 093C" }

COMMENT_LINE { "text": ": 0917 093C" }

COMMENT_LINE { "text": ": 091C 093C" }

COMMENT_LINE { "text": ": 0921 093C" }

COMMENT_LINE { "text": ": 0922 093C" }

COMMENT_LINE { "text": ": 092B 093C" }

COMMENT_LINE { "text": ": 092F 093C" }

Additional vowels for Sanskrit

Generic punctuation for scripts of India

These punctuation marks are for common use for the scripts of India despite being named "DEVANAGARI". They also occur as abbreviation signs in some South Indian scripts.

ALIAS_LINE { "text": "purna viram" }

COMMENT_LINE { "bullet": "*", "text": "phrase separator" }

ALIAS_LINE { "text": "deergh viram" }

Digits

COMMENT_LINE { "bullet": "*", "text": "also used to represent an anusvara following digits indicating secondary svara-s in Samavedic texts" }

Additional signs

COMMENT_LINE { "bullet": "*", "text": "intended for Devanagari-specific abbreviations" }

Independent vowel for Marathi

Independent vowels

These independent vowels are used in Kashmiri and in the Bihari languages.

Independent vowels for Kashmiri

Additional consonants

COMMENT_LINE { "bullet": "*", "text": "used in transliteration of Avestan" }

CROSS_REF { "name2": "gujarati letter zha", "cp2": "0AF9" }

COMMENT_LINE { "bullet": "*", "text": "used for an affricated glide JJYA" }

Sindhi implosives

Glottal stop

COMMENT_LINE { "bullet": "*", "text": "used for writing Limbu in Devanagari" }

COMMENT_LINE { "bullet": "*", "text": "a glyph variant has the connecting top bar" }

Sindhi implosives