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Devanagari Script (lesson 0!)

Part-11: Consonant Vowel combinations

Sanskrit is a phonetic language. Any of the consonants can form a syllable with any of the vowels. Such combinations are written using special ligatures (specific shapes different from those of normal vowels). The Devanagari script follows fairly consistent rules to write consonant vowel combinations. In standard literature, the term "medial vowl" is used to refer to vowels inside a word i.e.,vowels occurring with consonants in the words. Exceptions to this rule of using medial vowel representations also occur.

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