The first character in the Assamese alphabet.This letter only appears at the beginning of words, since the vowel it represents always follows a consonant letter (i.e., it’s the inherent vowel, attached to every consonant), unless a vowel diacritic is attached to the consonant, which modifies the vowel, or the inherent vowel is deleted following the schwa-dropping rules. The first letter and first vowel of the Bengali script.From Siddham 𑖀, ultimately from Brahmi 𑀅 ( a ).
