ါ

ါ

1. alternative form of ာ (“Indic dependent vowel ā”)
2. alternative form of ာ (“part of the conventional graphical decomposition of the Indic vowel o into component vowel marks.”)
3. alternative form of ာ (“part of the conventional graphical decomposition of the Indic vowel au into component vowel marks.”)

In a few languages, notably S'gaw Karen and Western Pwo, this is the only form used for the dependent vowel. Normally, it is used because a ligature of consonant and ာ would be hard to distinguish from yet another consonant.

ါ • (transliteration needed)

1. a diacritic, named မောက်ချ (maukhkya.), used to represent the Burmese low tone

• IPA^(key): /â/

ါ (transliteration needed)

1. a diacritic used to represent the Western Pwo vowel /a/.
   • Western Pwo ခါ (khâ, “break”)
   • Western Pwo ခၩ (khá, “expensive”)
   • Western Pwo ခၪ (khà, “bitter”)
   • Western Pwo ခၫ (khà, “to step”)
   • Western Pwo ခၬ (khaʔ, “a bedstead”)
   • Western Pwo ခၭ (khaʔ, “to shoot”)

When it is solely used with a consonant, it produces /a/ with a falling tone. This diacritic is written only when the tonal diacritics are unmarked.