Ga (Indic)

Ga is the third consonant of Indic abugidas. In modern Indic scripts, ga is derived from the early "Ashoka" Brahmi letter , which is probably derived from the Aramaic letter (gimel, /g/) after having gone through the Gupta letter .

Ga
Example glyphs
Bengali–Assamese
Tibetan
Thai
Malayalam
Sinhala
Ashoka Brahmi
Devanagari
Cognates
Hebrewג
GreekΓ
LatinC, G, Ɣ
CyrillicГ, Ґ
Properties
Phonemic representation/g/ /k/B /kʰ/C
IAST transliterationga Ga
ISCII code pointB5 (181)

^B In Khmer, Tai Viet, Tai Lü, Northern Thai and Tai Khün
^C In Thai and Lao
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