nuqta
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The nuqta (, , ; sometimes also spelled nukta, , ), is a diacritic mark that was introduced in Devanagari and some other Indic scripts to represent sounds not present in the original scripts. It takes the form of a dot placed below a character. This idea is inspired from the Arabic script; for example, there are some letters in Urdu that share the same basic shape but differ in the placement of dots(s) or nuqta(s) in the Perso-Arabic script: the letter ع ayn, with the addition of a nuqta on top, becomes the letter غ g͟hayn. The word itself means "dot" in Arabic.
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- Use in Devanagari
- Perso-Arabic consonants
- Dravidian consonants
- Dardic consonants
- Eastern Indo-Aryan letters
- Old Nepali Letters
- Similar diacritics
- See also
- References
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The nuqta (, , ; sometimes also spelled nukta, , ), is a diacritic mark that was introduced in Devanagari and some other Indic scripts to represent sounds not present in the original scripts. It takes the form of a dot placed below a character. This idea is inspired from the Arabic script; for example, there are some letters in Urdu that share the same basic shape but differ in the placement of dots(s) or nuqta(s) in the Perso-Arabic script: the letter ع ayn, with the addition of a nuqta on top, becomes the letter غ g͟hayn. The word itself means "dot" in Arabic.
==Use in Devanagari== ===Perso-Arabic consonants=== The term () is itself an example of the use of the nuqta. Other examples include ; and , a combination of a Türko-Mongolic (āġā) and a (k͟hān) honorific.
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