other Brahmic scripts, Rejang consonants have an inherent vowel or , so, for example, the consonant is pronounced ka or k?. Other vowels are represented by diacritics attached to a base letter. Vowel diacritics may also be attached to the base letter a, which acts as a null consonant.

Consonants at the end of a syllable are also represented by diacritics. The virama is a "killer stroke" that suppresses any consonant's inherent vowel, leaving an isolated consonant,