# virama

> diacritic in Brahmic abugidas noting the suppression of an inherent vowel pronounced after a base consonant letter in absence of any vowel sign; it may be not marked when it notes the composition of consonant conjuncts

**Wikidata**: [Q2636394](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2636394)  
**Wikipedia**: [English](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virama)  
**Source**: https://4ort.xyz/entity/virama


## References

1. Freebase Data Dumps. 2013