Home›Open Questions›Does the Ranjana tradition count the six aspirated sonorants of Nepal Bhasa, ngha, nyha, nha, mha, rha and lha, as letters of its own varnamala, or as conjuncts of a base letter with ha?Open QuestionsDoes the Ranjana tradition count the six aspirated sonorants of Nepal Bhasa, ngha, nyha, nha, mha, rha and lha, as letters of its own varnamala, or as conjuncts of a base letter with ha?Citation FormatsGeneral ReferenceGeneral Reference Citation TextDivinity Atlas. "Does the Ranjana tradition count the six aspirated sonorants of Nepal Bhasa, ngha, nyha, nha, mha, rha and lha, as letters of its own varnamala, or as conjuncts of a base letter with ha?." Accessed August 30, 2026. https://divinity.interactivelion.com/open-questions-index/does-the-ranjana-tradition-count-the-six-aspirated-sonorants-of-nepal-bhasa-ngha-nyha-nha-mha-rha-and-lha-as-letters-of-its-own-varnamala-or-as-conjuncts-of-a-base-letter-with-ha.Copy General ReferenceAPA StyleAPA Style Citation TextDivinity Atlas. (n.d.). Does the Ranjana tradition count the six aspirated sonorants of Nepal Bhasa, ngha, nyha, nha, mha, rha and lha, as letters of its own varnamala, or as conjuncts of a base letter with ha?. Retrieved August 30, 2026, from https://divinity.interactivelion.com/open-questions-index/does-the-ranjana-tradition-count-the-six-aspirated-sonorants-of-nepal-bhasa-ngha-nyha-nha-mha-rha-and-lha-as-letters-of-its-own-varnamala-or-as-conjuncts-of-a-base-letter-with-haCopy APA StyleBibTeXBibTeX Citation Text@misc{divinityatlas-does-the-ranjana-tradition-count-the-six, author = {Divinity Atlas}, title = {Does the Ranjana tradition count the six aspirated sonorants of Nepal Bhasa, ngha, nyha, nha, mha, rha and lha, as letters of its own varnamala, or as conjuncts of a base letter with ha?}, year = {2026}, url = {https://divinity.interactivelion.com/open-questions-index/does-the-ranjana-tradition-count-the-six-aspirated-sonorants-of-nepal-bhasa-ngha-nyha-nha-mha-rha-and-lha-as-letters-of-its-own-varnamala-or-as-conjuncts-of-a-base-letter-with-ha}, note = {Accessed August 30, 2026} }Copy BibTeXOpen QuestionCross-Tradition ConnectionsSourcesComments (0)Reader Challenges (0 open reader challenges)Open QuestionRanjana is unencoded, so there is no character standard to settle the inventory. The one openly licensed Ranjana typeface, Nithya Ranjana, ships two builds: the Devanagari-mapped build has no way to reach these six, because Devanagari has no letters for them, while the Newa-mapped build carries a separate outline for each, since the Newa block encodes them as letters of Prachalit. The font therefore draws six shapes whose status in Ranjana's own tradition this run could not establish, so the 47 letters seeded here are the vowels and consonants both builds agree on.What would resolve this A reading of Newar alphabet charts and primers that teach Ranjana in the Kathmandu Valley, or of the Ranjana Unicode encoding proposals submitted to the Unicode Technical Committee, either of which would state whether the six are counted as letters. If they are, they belong in the block at ids 5247 to 5252.OpenNewar palaeography; South Asian script encodingDivinity Atlas Open Questions Register, First EditionCross-Tradition ConnectionsQuestion OnRanjana, Scripts & Magical Alphabets Well-attested Source Divinity Atlas Open Questions Register, First Editiontier 1SourcesDivinity Atlas Open Questions Register, First Editiontier 1Comments (0)No comments yet. Be the first to share a thought.Sign in to join the discussion.Reader Challenges (0 open reader challenges)No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.Sign in to dispute this or suggest a correction.View At A Past YearThe atlas records no dated fact of its own for this entry, so there is no other year to choose.Show This Year