The Sanskrit Alphabet

Click on letters to the left to get information about each letter. Roll over labels below to see groupings (in addition to color coding).

consonants

hard simple

hard aspirated

soft simple

soft aspirated

nasal

semi vowels

sibilants

aspirate

vowels

simple

dipthongs - guna

dipthongs - vrddhi

devanaagari ‘ma’
transliterated ‘ma’

mouth positions

guttural

palatal

cerebral

dental

labial

The Sanskrit Alphabet

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