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A dot beneath a letter, adapting it to a foreign sound.
Also known as: Dot below Brahmic, Adaptation dot
In several Brahmic scripts a dot placed beneath a consonant adapts it to a sound the script had no letter for, most often a sound borrowed from Persian, Arabic or English.
Adapts the consonant it sits under to represent a sound outside the script's inherited inventory.
Contexts: Language and transcription
Is how a script absorbs loanwords without inventing new letters, which is why its use varies with a language's contact history rather than with the script itself.
Contexts: Language and transcription
A single small dot placed directly beneath the consonant letter it modifies.