Nuqta
Diacritic mark in Devanagari and some other Indic scripts / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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"Nukta" redirects here. For the fish species, see Schismatorhynchos nukta.
Not to be confused with Anusvara.
The nuqta (Hindi: नुक़्ता, Urdu: نقطہ, romanized: nuqtā; sometimes also spelled nukta), is a diacritic mark that was introduced in Devanagari and some other Indic scripts to represent sounds not present in the original scripts.[upper-alpha 1][1] It takes the form of a dot placed below a character. This idea is inspired from the Arabic script; for example, there are some letters in Urdu that share the same basic shape but differ in the placement of dots(s) or nuqta(s) in the Perso-Arabic script: the letter ع ayn, with the addition of a nuqta on top, becomes the letter غ g͟hayn.[2]
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