Anusvara vs. Visarga

Anusvaranoun

A diacritic used in Indic scripts as a nasal consonant.

Anusvara

Anusvara (Sanskrit: अनुस्वार anusvāra) is a symbol used in many Indic scripts to mark a type of nasal sound, typically transliterated ⟨ṃ⟩. Depending on its location in the word and the language for which it is used, its exact pronunciation can vary.

Visarganoun

the voiceless terminal h in Sanskrit

Visarga

Visarga (Sanskrit: विसर्गः, romanized: visargaḥ) means . In Sanskrit phonology (śikṣā), visarga (also called, equivalently, visarjanīya by earlier grammarians) is the name of a phone voiceless glottal fricative, [h], written as: Visarga is an allophone of /r/ and /s/ in pausa (at the end of an utterance).