Ja (Indic)

Ja is the eighth consonant of Indic abugidas. In modern Indic scripts, ja is derived from the early "Ashoka" Brahmi letter after having gone through the Gupta letter .

Ja
Example glyphs
Bengali–Assamese
Tibetan
Tamil
Thai
Malayalam
Sinhala
Ashoka Brahmi
Devanagari
Cognates
Hebrewז
GreekΖ
LatinZ, Ʒ, ẞ
CyrillicЗ
Properties
Phonemic representation/d͡ʒ/ /t͜ɕʰ/B /s/C /t͜ɕ/D /t͜s/E /z/F
IAST transliterationja Ja
ISCII code pointBA (186)

^B in Thai
^C in Lao
^D in Northern Thai, Tai Khün
^E in Tai Lü
^F in Burmese
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