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Vowels that hang off consonants.
Also known as: Vowel sign, Dependent vowel
The Brahmic system writing a vowel following a consonant as a mark attached around the letter rather than as an independent character.
Writes the vowel following a consonant as a mark attached to that consonant.
Contexts: Language and transcription, Software
A vowel sign can be written to the left of the consonant it follows, which means the visual order and the spoken order differ — the property that makes Indic text sorting, searching and cursor movement harder than in a linear script.
Contexts: Language and transcription, Software
Each script positions the same vowel differently, so the mātrā system is inherited as a principle and reinvented in detail by every script that uses it.
Contexts: Language and transcription, Software
Strokes, hooks and rings attached above, below, before or after the consonant, with the position varying by vowel and by script.
The vowel signs write every vowel except the inherent one, which needs no mark.