Myanmar Letter Ga

A consonant letter, not a word on its own.

Burmese ga belongs inside a syllable. Like other Myanmar consonants, it carries an inherent “a” vowel unless spelling marks change or suppress it.

The Myanmar script grew from a Brahmi-related South Indian script brought to write Mon around the eighth century; its first inscription dates to the eleventh century. These dates concern the script, not ဂ itself. The originally square letters became rounded; one traditional explanation is that curves were kinder to palm leaves.