व़

Translingual

Pronunciation

  • (letter name) IPA(key): /wə/
  • (phoneme) IPA(key): /w/

Letter

व़ (w)

  1. used to transcribe the /w/ sound in Devanagari

Eastern Magar

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /wʱə/

Letter

व़ (wh)

  1. Used to represent the [wʱ] sound in Magar. [1]

Gamale Kham

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɥə/

Letter

व़ (ẏa)

  1. Used to represent the [ɥ] sound in Gamale Kham

Nepali

Pronunciation

Letter

व़ • (w)

  1. Used to represent the [w] sound in old Nepali texts, while the glyph व was used instead of ब to represent [b]. [2]

See also

References

  • Wilde, Christopher P. (2016) “व़”, in Gamale Kham Phonology Revisited, with Devanagari-based Orthography and Lexicon, Asia-Pacific Linguistics
  • Results of the Nepal German Project on High Mountain Archaeology: Ten documents from Mustang in the Nepali language (1667-1975 A.D.). (2001). Germany: VGH Wissenschaftsverlag.