For example, in Thai, the syllable written as the consonant-vowel pair หา is pronounced haa, but the syllable just written as a consonant ห is pronounced hɔ.ĭiacritic symbols may be used to change or mute the inherent vowel, and separate vowel letters may be used when vowels occur at the beginning of a syllable or on their own. That means a vowel must be pronounced in a syllable even if it is not written down. Syllables are built up of consonants, each of which has an inherent vowel.
Vowels must be written down as well, but they are secondary and do not act the same way as consonants.
It has sequences of consonants and vowels that are written together as a unit, each of which is based on the consonant letter. ( Kalidasa)Īn abugida is a writing system that is neither a syllabic nor alphabetic script, but somewhere in between. May Śiva bless those who take delight in the language of the gods. Read more about this site.Comparison of various abugidas descended from Brahmi script. Currently displaying Unicode version 15.0.0. This is, a site dedicated to all things characters, letters and Unicode. The Bengali writing system is less blocky, however, and presents a more sinuous shape than the Devanagari script. It is recognisable, as are other Brahmic scripts, by a distinctive horizontal line known as a mātrā (মাত্রা) running along the tops of the letters that links them together. The Bengali writing system is written from left to right and uses a single letter case, which makes it a unicameral script, as opposed to a bicameral one like the Latin script. its vowel graphemes are mainly realised not as independent letters, but as diacritics modifying the vowel inherent in the base letter they are added to. It is one of the most widely adopted writing systems in the world (used by over 265 million people).įrom a classificatory point of view, the Bengali writing system is an abugida, i.e. The Bengali script or Bangla alphabet (Bengali: বাংলা বর্ণমালা, Bangla bôrṇômala) is the alphabet used to write the Bengali language based on the Bengali-Assamese script, and has historically been used to write Sanskrit within Bengal. The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint: It has type Other Letter for sentence and Alphabetic Letter for word breaks. In text U+09B7 behaves as Alphabetic regarding line breaks. The glyph can, under circumstances, be confused with 1 other glyphs. In bidirectional context it acts as Left To Right and is not mirrored. This character is a Other Letter and is mainly used in the Bengali script.
It belongs to the block U+0980 to U+09FF Bengali in the U+0000 to U+FFFF Basic Multilingual Plane. U+09B7 was added to Unicode in version 1.1 (1993). Copy to clipboard share this codepoint embed this codepoint
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