Kha – The Second alphabet in Nepali

The letter Kha (ख) is the second consonant of the Devanagari script of Nepali language. The letter can be traced back to the Brahmi letter (ka). Brahmi script is the oldest writing systems used in South and Central Asia from the 1st millennium BCE. The letter later transformed into the present form of Ka.

The original Indic letter Kha is attested in three different forms. The first is in standard Brahmi, ka, the second in the Brahmi variant, Tocharian, also known as slanting Brahmi. The third form of Kha, in Kharoshthi () was probably derived from Aramaic separately from the Brahmi letter.
Brahmi Ka[edit]
The Brahmi letter kha, kha, is derived from the Aramaic q, Q, and is related to the modern Latin Q and archaic Greek Koppa.

Aryabhata used Devanagari letters for numbers, very similar to the Greek numerals, even after the invention of Indian numerals. The values of the different forms of ख are:
ख [kə] = 2 (२)
खि [kɪ] = 200 (२००)
खु [kʊ] = 20,000 (२० ०००)
खृ [kri] = 2,000,000 (२० ०० ०००)
खॢ [klə] = 2×108 (२×१०८)
खे [ke] = 2×1010 (२×१०१०)
खै [kɛː] = 2×1012 (२×१०१२)
खो [koː] = 2×1014 (२×१०१४)
खौ [kɔː] = 2×1016 (२×१०१६)

The details about the first Nepali alphabet ‘Ka’ was written before. (Read more about ‘Ka’ here)

Details about more alphabet will be coming soon.