Kha (Bengali)

The Bengali letter is derived from the Siddhaṃ , and is marked by the lack of a horizontal head line, unlike its Devanagari counterpart, . The inherent vowel of Bengali consonant letters is /ɔ/, so the bare letter 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, can be modified by marks to indicate another (or no) vowel than its inherent "a".

in Bengali-using languages

is used as a basic consonant character in all of the major Bengali script orthographies, including Bengali and Assamese.

Conjuncts with

Bengali does not exhibit any irregular conjunct ligatures, beyond adding the standard trailing forms of , ya-phala, and ra-phala, and the leading repha form of .[1]

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