Va (Indic)
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Va or Wa is a consonant of Indic abugidas. In modern Indic scripts, Va is derived from the early "Ashoka" Brahmi letter after having gone through the Gupta letter
. It is generally romanized as "Va" in scripts for Indic languages, but as "Wa" in many scripts for other language families.
Quick Facts Example glyphs, Bengali–Assamese ...
Va | |
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Example glyphs | |
Bengali–Assamese | ![]() |
Tibetan | ཝ |
Tamil | ![]() |
Thai | ว |
Malayalam | വ |
Sinhala | ව |
Ashoka Brahmi | ![]() |
Devanagari | ![]() |
Cognates | |
Hebrew | ו |
Greek | Ϝ (Ϛ), Υ (Ȣ) |
Latin | F, V, U, W, Y, Ⅎ |
Cyrillic | Ѕ, У (Ꙋ), Ѵ, Ю |
Properties | |
Phonemic representation | /ʋ/ |
IAST transliteration | v V |
ISCII code point | D4 (212) |
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