ষ (murdhôinnya xô), স (dôntiya xô) and হ (hô) are called usma barna The letters য (za), ৰ (ra), ল (la) and ৱ (wa) are called ôntôsthô barna The letters ড় (daré ṛa) and ঢ় (dharé ṛha) are phonetically similar to /ra/ The letter য (ôntôsthô zô) is articulated like 'ôntôsthô yô' in the word medial and final position. To denote the ôntôsthô ẏô, the letter য় (ôntôsthô ẏô) is used in Assamese ৎ (khanda ṯ) means the consonant letter Tö (dôntiya ta) without the inherent vowel Halant To write a consonant without the inherent vowel the halant sign is used below the base glyph. In Assamese this sign is called haxanta. (্) Consonant Conjuncts In Assamese, the combination of three consonants is possible without their intervening vowels. There are about 122 conjunct letters. A few conjunct letters are given below: Anuxôr Anuxôr ( ং ) indicates a nasal consonant sound (velar). When an anuxar comes before a consonant belonging to any of the 5 bargas, it represents the nasal consonant belonging to that barga. Candrabindu Chandrabindu ( ঁ ) denotes nasalization of the vowel that is attached to it . Bixargô Bixargô ( ঃ ) represents a sound similar to /h /. Consonant clusters according to Goswami According to Dr. G. C. Goswami the number of two-phoneme clusters is 143 symbolised by 174 conjunct letters. Three phoneme clusters are 21 in number, which are written by 27 conjunct clusters. A few of them are given hereafter as examples: Digits Three distinct variations of Assamese script from the Bengali Though is used in Bengali as a conjunct letter. Cha or Chha too has different pronunciation. Assamese keyboard layout Inscript keyboard layout: Phonetic keyboard layout: The unique letter identifiers: The keyboard locations of three characters unique to the Assamese script are depicted below: ITRANS characterisation: The "Indian languages TRANSliteration" (ITRANS) the ASCII transliteration scheme for Indic scripts here, Assamese; the characterisations are given below: Sample text The following is a sample text in Assamese of Article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights: Assamese in Assamese alphabet Assamese in Romanisation 1 Prôthôm ônussêd: Zônmôgôtôbhawê xôkôlû manuh moirjyôda aru odhikarôt xôman aru sôtôntrô. Têû̃lûkôr bibêk asê, buddhi asê. Têû̃lûkê proittêkê proittêkôk bhratribhawê byôwôhar kôra usit. Assamese in Romanisation 2 Prothom onussed: Jonmogotobhabe xokolü manuh moirjjoda aru odhikarot xoman aru sotontro. Teü̃lükor bibek ase, buddhi ase. Teü̃lüke proitteke proittekok bhratribhawe bebohar kora