What means
It represents voiced /b/: close both lips briefly, with voice on.
Mahendra Nath Sardar developed Ol Onal between 1981 and 1992 for Bhumij. In 1992, Adim Bhumij Samaj selected his script from three proposals; Bhumij was also written in Latin, Bengali, Odia and Devanagari.
It appears in primers, ritual writing, wedding cards and inscriptions in parts of Odisha, West Bengal, Jharkhand and Assam.
What does hoddond after Ab do?
It adds a brief throat closure after /b/.
Ol Onal places hoddond after Ab or Uj; it does not replace the letter.
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Questions people ask
1Why can old Ol Onal text show Latin letters?
Some fonts made in 2013–2014 mapped Ol Onal shapes onto Latin characters; without that font, the underlying letters may show.
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- ol onal · bhumij · bhumij lipi · hoddond · glottal
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content: "\1E5D8";
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