Indic Syllabic Category - Visarga

Visarga is a linguistic marker in Indic scripts that typically appears after a vowel or consonant to indicate a voiceless breathy release, often transcribed as an “h” with a following aspiration or as a visarga symbol (ः). It represents a postvocalic sound, similar to a final “-h” in Sanskrit, and is used in phonetics to denote a voiceless glottal fricative or a brief echo of the preceding vowel. In script rendering, it functions as a dependent sign that attaches to the base character, and it can also serve a grammatical role, such as marking certain case endings or sandhi (sound fusion) in word formation. Its shape and placement vary across scripts like Devanagari, Bengali, and Tamil, but its core phonetic value remains consistent as a trailing aspirate.