Kha (Bengali)
The Bengali letter খ is derived from the Siddhaṃ 
, and is marked by the lack of a horizontal head line, unlike its Devanagari counterpart, ख. The inherent vowel of Bengali consonant letters is /ɔ/, so the bare letter খ will sometimes be transliterated as "kho" instead of "kha". Adding okar, the "o" vowel mark, খো, gives a reading of /kho/.
Like all Indic consonants, খ can be modified by marks to indicate another (or no) vowel than its inherent "a".
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খ in Bengali-using languages[edit]
খ is used as a basic consonant character in all of the major Bengali script orthographies, including Bengali and Assamese.
Conjuncts with খ[edit]
Bengali খ does not exhibit any irregular conjunct ligatures, beyond adding the standard trailing forms of ব, য ya-phala, and র ra-phala, and the leading repha form of র.[1]
- খ্ + ব [kh+ba] gives us the ligature
- খ্ + য [kh+ya] gives us the ligature
- খ্ + র [kh+ra] gives us the ligature
- while র্ + খ [r+kha] gives us the ligature
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ "The Bengali Alphabet" (PDF). 20 April 2007. Archived from the original (PDF) on 23 July 2012.