 As in most other Brahmic scripts, the short vowel /-a/ is not written; other vowels are written with diacritics before (/-i, -o/), after (/-ā, -u/), or under (/-e/) the initial consonant.The length mark, however, is written over the initial, as well as any final consonant diacritic, and fuses with /-o/ and /-u/.