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I wouldn't call them "mega-combo characters" ;-) Typically, these are at most two or three letters written together, and they are very much used today in Sanskr
by ubasu 14y ago
I wouldn't call them "mega-combo characters" ;-) Typically, these are at most two or three letters written together, and they are very much used today in Sanskrit, Hindi and other regional variants such as Bengali etc.
Of course you also have multiple words that have been combined into one large compound word, by way of appropriate linguistic rules of combining sounds. This is similar to long compound words in German.
- contingencies 14y agoApparently sometimes called conjuncts. http://pratyeka.org/sanskrit/conjuncts.html http://pratyeka.org/sanskrit/conjuncts.html
- tikwidd 14y agoThis is the term I'm familiar with. They are similar to ligatures which exist in the Italic scripts e.g & (e+t), œ (o+e), German ß (ſ(long s)+s) etc. But conjuncts in Devanagari are much more numerous and widely used, probably because the individual consonant forms are fairly complex.