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Table 5 Special consonants and Virama sign in Malayalam

From: Improving speech recognition systems for the morphologically complex Malayalam language using subword tokens for language modeling

Character

Properties

Anuswara

Represents /m/ at syllable ends

Visarga

Introduces aspirated glottal stop

Chillu

Dead consonants with no inherent vowel

Virama

Kills Inherent vowel in conjuncts

 

Inserts schwa at word ends.

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