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. There are many known abugida scripts, including most of the Brahmic scripts and Kharosthi, the c ...

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".

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

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{{reflist Bengali language Indic letters

in Bengali-using languages

Conjuncts with

See also

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