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A curl that ended a sentence.
Also known as: Sinhala full stop
The Sinhala mark historically closing a sentence, displaced by the full stop.
Closed a sentence or a verse in Sinhala writing.
Contexts: Language and transcription, History
Replaced by the Latin full stop during the colonial period and effectively obsolete in modern Sinhala, which makes it one of the clearest cases in the batch of punctuation displaced by contact rather than by reform.
Contexts: Language and transcription, History
A curled, spiral-like glyph on the line, closing the sentence it follows.