Editing Virama (section)

{{short description|Diacritic in many Brahmic scripts}}
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'''Virama''' ({{Langx|sa|विराम/हलन्त|translit=virāma/halanta}} ्, {{ipa|sa|ʋiraːmɐ, ɦɐlɐn̪t̪ɐ|ipa}}) 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
# '''halanta''', '''hasanta''' or explicit '''virāma''', a [[diacritic]] in many [[Brahmic scripts]], including the [[Devanagari]] and [[Bengali–Assamese script|Bengali]] scripts, or
# '''saṃyuktākṣara''' ([[Sanskrit]]: संयुक्ताक्षर) or implicit virama, a conjunct consonant or ligature.
Unicode schemes of scripts writing [[Mainland Southeast Asia linguistic area|Mainland Southeast Asia languages]], such as that of [[Burmese script]] and of [[Tibetan script]], generally do not group the two functions together.