Indic Syllabic Category

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Avagraha

Count

18

Avagraha is a mark used in Indic scripts to indicate elision of a vowel, often shown as a curved stroke.

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Bindu

Count

100

Bindu is a nasalization mark, often a dot, used in Indic scripts to indicate an anusvara-like sound.

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Brahmi_Joining_Number

Count

20

Brahmi Joining Number is a numeric value indicating the joining behavior of Brahmi-derived script characters, typically 0, 1, or 2.

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Cantillation_Mark

Count

60

Cantillation Mark is assigned to characters used for Hebrew biblical chanting, indicating musical or tonal accents, not syllabic sounds.

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Consonant

Count

2344

Consonant is a category for letters that represent consonantal sounds, excluding vowels and modifiers, in Indic scripts.

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Consonant_Dead

Count

14

Consonant Dead is a classification for consonant letters that are not followed by a vowel, often called dead consonants in Indic scripts.

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Consonant_Final

Count

70

Consonant Final is a classification for consonant letters that only appear at the end of a syllable, not in initial or medial positions.

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Consonant_Head_Letter

Count

5

Consonant Head Letter is a value for the primary consonant of an Indic syllable, often used as the initial letter in a conjunct sequence.

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Consonant_Initial_Postfixed

Count

1

Consonant Initial Postfixed is a mark that follows a consonant and acts as an inherent vowel modifier, positioning after the base consonant.

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Consonant_Killer

Count

2

Consonant Killer is a value indicating a mark that removes a consonant’s inherent vowel, often forming conjuncts or final consonants.

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Consonant_Medial

Count

35

Consonant Medial is a category for consonants that appear in the middle of a syllable cluster, often as subjoined forms.

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Consonant_Placeholder

Count

21

Consonant Placeholder is a value marking a consonant that stands in for a missing or abstract base consonant in orthographic syllable construction.

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Consonant_Preceding_Repha

Count

6

Consonant Preceding Repha is a category for consonants that appear before a repha mark, indicating a special orthographic positioning.

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Consonant_Prefixed

Count

8

Consonant Prefixed is a mark that combines with a consonant to form a syllable, appearing before the base consonant.

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Consonant_Repha

Count

0

Consonant Repha is a category for a consonant’s pre-base reph form, used in scripts like Devanagari to mark a word-initial ‘r’ sound.

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Consonant_Subjoined

Count

94

Consonant Subjoined is a mark that appears below a base consonant, forming a conjunct without altering the base's inherent vowel.

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Consonant_Succeeding_Repha

Count

1

Consonant Succeeding Repha is a category for consonants that follow a repha mark, typically indicating a postposed form of the repha sign in Indic scripts.

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Consonant_With_Stacker

Count

9

Consonant With Stacker is a category for consonant letters that form a visible stack with a following conjunct, like in Devanagari and Bengali scripts.

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Gemination_Mark

Count

5

Gemination Mark is a category for characters that indicate consonant doubling or lengthening in Indic scripts, often used like a diacritic.

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Invisible_Stacker

Count

14

Invisible Stacker is a mark that joins consonants into vertical stacks, forming conjuncts without visible spacing or glyphs.

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Joiner

Count

1

Joiner is a category for characters that explicitly prevent cursive or conjunctive joining, like the ZWNJ, without causing word breaks.

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Modifying_Letter

Count

1

Modifying Letter is a category for characters that alter the sound of a preceding consonant or vowel, without forming an independent syllable.

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Non_Joiner

Count

1

Non Joiner is a character value that explicitly prevents cursive joining between adjacent letters in scripts like Arabic.

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Nukta

Count

33

Nukta is a combining mark used in Indic scripts to alter a consonant’s sound, often denoting borrowed or foreign phonemes.

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Number

Count

541

Number is the value assigned to characters that function as numerals in Indic scripts, distinct from other syllabic roles.

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Number_Joiner

Count

1

Number Joiner is a mark that links digits in Indic scripts, preventing them from being visually joined into a single numeral form.

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Other

Count

305480

Other is the fallback category for any character not assigned a specific syllabic role, covering unassigned, default, or non-Indic code points.

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Pure_Killer

Count

29

Pure Killer is a categorization for consonant letters that form syllable cores without inherent vowel sounds, used in Indic script analysis.

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Register_Shifter

Count

2

Register Shifter is a value indicating a character that adjusts the phonetic register of adjacent vowels, like in some South Asian scripts.

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Reordering_Killer

Count

2

Reordering Killer is a character value that prevents vowel signs from repositioning around a consonant, forcing them to stay in their written order.

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Syllable_Modifier

Count

26

Syllable Modifier is a mark that alters a syllable’s phonetic value, often indicating tone, stress, or nasalization, without forming a standalone letter.

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Tone_Letter

Count

7

Tone Letter is a category for characters used to denote tones in various writing systems, often as superscripts or combining marks.

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Tone_Mark

Count

42

Tone Mark is a value indicating a character used to denote a tonal distinction, often applied to vowels or syllables in Indic-derived scripts.

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Virama

Count

27

Virama is a character used to remove a vowel from a preceding consonant, forming conjuncts in Indic scripts.

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Visarga

Count

38

Visarga is a breathy release sound after a vowel, used in Indic scripts to mark aspiration or final voiceless breath.

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Vowel

Count

30

Vowel is a class for letters functioning as inherent or dependent vowel sounds, excluding matras and vowel signs.

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Vowel_Dependent

Count

741

Vowel Dependent is a category for vowel signs that must attach to a consonant, altering its inherent vowel sound.

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Vowel_Independent

Count

512

Vowel Independent is an Indic syllabic category value for standalone vowel letters that form their own syllable without requiring a consonant base.