Ai (Indic)
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Ai is a vowel of Indic abugidas. In modern Indic scripts, Ai is derived from the early "Ashoka" Brahmi letter . As an Indic vowel, Ai comes in two normally distinct forms: 1) as an independent letter, and 2) as a vowel sign for modifying a base consonant. Bare consonants without a modifying vowel sign have the inherent "A" vowel.
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Ai | |
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Example glyphs | |
Bengali–Assamese | ![]() |
Tamil | ![]() |
Thai | ไ |
Malayalam | ഐ |
Sinhala | ඓ |
Ashoka Brahmi | ![]() |
Devanagari | ![]() |
Cognates | |
Hebrew | ע |
Greek | Ο, Ω |
Latin | O |
Cyrillic | О, Ѡ, Ѿ, Ꙋ, Ю |
Properties | |
Phonemic representation | /ɐi/ /ɔi/ /ɛː/ |
IAST transliteration | ai Ai |
ISCII code point | AD (173) |
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