Sentence examples for virama from inspiring English sources

Most other conjunct consonants are made with an explicit virama, called al-lakuna, as shown in the following table, some of which may vary between fonts.

In other Indic scripts, it is generally preferred to use a ligature or a half form to write a syllable or a cluster containing a dead consonant, although writing it with a visible virama is also possible.

Many Indic scripts have a similar sign, generically called virama, but the Tamil script is somewhat different in that it nearly always uses a visible puḷḷi to indicate a dead consonant (a consonant without a vowel).