Visarga

Visarga

Visarga ("IAST|visarga") is a Sanskrit word meaning "sending forth, discharge". In Sanskrit phonology ("IAST|śikṣā"), "IAST|visarga" (also called, equivalently, "IAST|visarjanīya" by earlier grammarians) is the name of a phone, IPA| [h] , written as IAST <IAST|ḥ>, Harvard-Kyoto , Devanagari <Unicode|ः>. Visarga is an allophone of IPA|/r/ and IAST|/s/ in pausa (at the end of an utterance). Since IPA|/-s/ is a common desinence (nominative singular, second person singular, etc.), visarga appears frequently in Sanskrit texts. In the traditional order of Sanskrit sounds, visarga together with anusvara appears between vowels and stop consonants.

The precise pronunciation of visarga in Vedic texts may vary between shakhas. Some pronounce a slight echo of the preceding vowel after the fricative, for example IAST|aḥ will be pronounced IPA| [ɐhɐ] , and IAST|iḥ will be pronounced IPA| [ihi] .

In Burmese, the visarga ( _my. ◌း), when used with joined to a letter, creates the high tone.


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