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Ja | |
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Example glyphs | |
Bengali–Assamese | ![]() |
Tibetan | ![]() |
Tamil | ஜ |
Thai | ช |
Malayalam | ജ |
Sinhala | ජ |
Ashoka Brahmi | ![]() |
Devanagari | ![]() |
Cognates | |
Hebrew | ז |
Greek | Ζ |
Latin | Z, Ʒ, ẞ |
Cyrillic | З |
Properties | |
Phonemic representation | /d͡ʒ/ /t͜ɕʰ/B /s/C /t͜ɕ/D /t͜s/E /z/F |
IAST transliteration | ja Ja |
ISCII code point | BA (186) |
^B in Thai ^C in Lao ^D in Northern Thai, Tai Khün ^E in Tai Lü ^F in Burmese |
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Ja is the eighth consonant of Indic abugidas. In modern Indic scripts, ja is derived from the early "Ashoka" Brahmi letter after having gone through the Gupta letter
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