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The Tibetan stack instead of a virama.
Also known as: Tibetan subjoined letter, Vertical stacking
The Tibetan treatment of consonant clusters, stacking letters vertically where other Brahmic scripts write a vowel-cancelling mark.
Writes a consonant cluster by stacking the letters vertically rather than by cancelling a vowel with a mark.
Contexts: Language and transcription, History
The structural fork between Tibetan and the Indian Brahmic scripts: both inherited the same problem and Devanagari solved it with the virama and conjunct ligatures while Tibetan solved it by building downward. This is why a Tibetan syllable is tall and a Devanagari one is wide.
Contexts: Language and transcription, History
Consonants written one beneath another in a vertical column, the lower letters reduced in size, forming a single stacked syllable block.