The Bengali letter is derived from the Siddhaṃ , and is marked by the lack of a horizontal head line, unlike its

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counterpart, . The

inherent vowel An inherent vowel is part of an abugida (or alphasyllabary) script. It is a vowel sound which is used with each unmarked or basic consonant symbol. For example, if the Latin alphabet used 'i' as an inherent vowel, "Wikipedia" could be rendered as "W ...

of Bengali consonant letters is /ɔ/, so the bare letter will sometimes be transliterated as "kho" instead of "kha". Adding okar, the "o" vowel mark, , gives a reading of /kho/. Like all Indic consonants, can be modified by marks to indicate another (or no) vowel than its inherent "a". খ (Bengali Letter Kho)

in Bengali-using languages

is used as a basic consonant character in all of the major Bengali script orthographies, including

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and Assamese.

Conjuncts with

Bengali does not exhibit any irregular conjunct ligatures, beyond adding the standard trailing forms of , ''ya-phala'', and ''ra-phala'', and the leading ''repha'' form of . * + h+bagives us the ligature Bengali Conjunct KHva

* + h+yagives us the ligature Bengali Conjunct KHya

* + h+ragives us the ligature Bengali Conjunct KHra

* while + +khagives us the ligature Bengali Conjunct Rkha

References

{{reflist Bengali letters

in Bengali-using languages

Conjuncts with

See also

References