Virama

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Virama (Sanskrit: विराम/हलन्त, romanized: virāma/halanta ्, IPA: [ʋiraːmɐ, ɦɐlɐn̪t̪ɐ] (see #Names for other terms) is a Sanskrit phonological concept to suppress the inherent vowel that otherwise occurs with every consonant letter, commonly used as a generic term for a codepoint in Unicode, representing either

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