[INDOLOGY] Sinhala half nasal plus m

[Dominik Wujastyk]

One can look up Unicode chars in various places, such as here:
https://unicodelookup.com/#latin
small letter a with tilde/1

It says, e.g.,

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ã latin small letter a with tilde 0343 227 0xE3 ã


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University of Alberta, Canada
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On 17 November 2016 at 22:12, Dipak Bhattacharya <dipak.d2004 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Dear Colleague,
>
> Between the nasal vowel eg in French ‘en’ and the velar n  one has
> anusvāra written with a dot over m. The nasal as I learned was
> represented by a wave above the vowel. Unicode does not furnish the
> letters. One has to improvise. I use them in MSWord for printing. But
> they are not Unicode compliant
>  Best
>
> DB
>
> On Fri, Aug 5, 2016 at 6:57 PM, Rolf Heinrich Koch
> <rolfheiner.koch at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Dear list members,
> >
> > there is one Sinhala sign consisting of a half-nasal with following ba,
> >
> > like in a-m-ba (mango).
> >
> >
> >
> > Unicode has a half-nasal for n, e. g. paňdita.
> >
> > But I could not figure out the corresponding sign for the half-nasal m.
> >
> > Since the anusvara ṃ is also frequent in Sinhala, I am using ṁ for
> > transcribing the half nasal m, e. g. aṁba.
> >
> >
> >
> > My work does not allow the composition of signs with the help of an
> > additional accent.
> >
> >
> >
> > Anyone came across the Unicode-standard for he half nasal of m?
> >
> >
> >
> > Best
> >
> >
> >
> > Rolf Heinrich Koch
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > www.rolfheinrichkoch.wordpress.com
> >
> >
> >
> >
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