An inherent vowel is part of an abugida script. It is the vowel sound which is used with each unmarked or basic consonant symbol. An abugida or alphasyllabary is a writing system composed of signs (graphemes) denoting consonants with an inherent following vowel, which are consistently modified to indicate other vowels (or, in some cases, the lack of a vowel). ... A consonant is a sound in spoken language that is characterized by a closure or stricture of the vocal tract sufficient to cause audible turbulence. ...
There are many abugida scripts, Indic scripts for example, that use such characters as base graphemes, from which the syllables are built up. Base graphemes having consonant with an inherent vowel can be usually changed to other graphemes by joining a tone mark or dependent vowel to such grapheme. An abugida or alphasyllabary is a writing system composed of signs (graphemes) denoting consonants with an inherent following vowel, which are consistently modified to indicate other vowels (or, in some cases, the lack of a vowel). ... The family tree ([1]) of the scripts of the South and South-East Asian sub-continent. ... A grapheme designates the atomic unit in written language. ... A syllable (Ancient Greek: ) is a unit of organization for a sequence of speech sounds. ... A diacritic mark or accent mark is an additional mark added to a basic letter. ...
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Vowels can be divided into two groups: dependent vowel signs, which are written around a consonant letter, and independent vowel letters, which can stand alone.
As to which phone is used depends on the series (or the inherentvowel) of the dominant consonant in a syllable cluster.
Independent vowels are vowels that do not have to be paired with a consonant in a syllable, hence the name.
An abugida or alphasyllabary is a writing system composed of signs (graphemes) denoting consonants with an inherent following vowel, which are consistently modified to indicate other vowels (or, in some cases, the lack of a vowel).
This vowel may be changed by adding vowel marks to the basic character, producing other syllables beginning with k-; कि = ki, कु = ku, के = ke, को = ko.
This is called the virama (from Sanskrit) or halant (from Hindi), and may be used to form consonant clusters, or when a consonant occurs at the end of a word.
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