Talk:Anusvara

message: "(cur) (last)  15:12, 9 December 2005 Uaxuctum (removed comment about a supposed Finnish word that neither has anything to do with the rest of the article nor looks believable (its purported meaning is utterly nonsensical)) "
:As a Finnish speaker I can prove that it is true that anusvaara means "danger of anus".
--192.130.100.45 14:15, 28 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Removed comment about Finnish

message: I don't support merging this article with Chandrabindu. Although the two diacritics serve the same purpose in certain languages such as Hindi, they have totally different uses in other languages, like Bengali (where anusvara/onushshar is a voiced velar nasal consonant and chandrabindu/chôndrobindu is nasalization on vowels). --SameerKhan 19:46, 13 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  No on the merge 

message: Hi, the Devanagari spelling in the introduction of this article (अनुस्वारः) is the definite nominative form and the correct transliteration would be "Anusvāraḥ". "Anusvāra" is the root form of the word. In Devanagari, the double dot at the end of a word adds a ḥ for the nominative. --JazzmanDE (talk) 10:33, 7 December 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Devanagari spelling of "Anusvara" 

message: The second paragraph mentions "candrabindu", but it's not shown in the infobox alongside … "chandrabindu" is shown. The Hindi section also mentions "candrabindu" in the first sentence — but the Nepali section mentions "chandrabindu" in the first sentence. This is unnecessarily confusing for the reader: are "candrabindu" and "chandrabindu" the same, and one is a spelling error?
It's only when the reader goes to the "chandrabindu" page that four alternative spellings are offered: "candrabindu", "chandravindu", "candravindu", and "chôndrobindu".
In the interests of consistency (and not confusing the reader), may I suggest that one speling (e.g. "candrabindu", since that's how it is for the Unicode characters) be used throughout, and that the infobox be changed to "candrabindu" with chandrabindu, chandravindu, candravindu, or chôndrobindu in parentheses to show the alternative spellings? If you agree with the foregoing, then the "chandrabindu" page should be changed to "candrabindu".
Prisoner of Zenda (talk) 07:58, 13 July 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Devanagari script 

message: In short, "Anusvara" is a sound, not a symbol. In detail: the अनुस्वार (anusvar) is combination (sandhi) of two words: अनुः + स्वर. The word स्वर literally means vowel, but it also means sound. Anusvar means "something that comes after vowel". The article lead currently states anusvara is a symbol. This is then contracted in lead itself, and in next sections. In lead, it says , and then  In section "Devanagari script", it says  In Sanskrit, and Marathi language, name for the dot representing anusvar is "शीर्षबिंदू" (शीर्ष = shirsh = top/head, बिंदू = bindu = dot). The lead and rest of the article should be corrected. If no objection/response comes here, I will update the article in two-ish weeks. Regards, —usernamekiran (talk) 13:24, 19 June 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Maybe we need better wording, but I don't see issues with the underlying information: that anusvara is the name of both a sound and a grapheme (in the various writing systems). – Uanfala (talk) 13:58, 19 June 2022 (UTC)
thread_title: Anusvara is a sound, not symbol