Siljan (lake) Siljan (lake) Siljan, in Dalarna in central Sweden, is Sweden's sixth largest lake. The cumulative area of Siljan and the adjacent, smaller lakes Orsasjön and Insjön is . Siljan reaches a maximum depth of , and its surface is situated above sea level. The largest town on its shore is Mora. The lake is located around the southwestern perimeter of the Siljan Ring (Swedish: "Siljansringen"), a circular geological formation which was formed 377 million years ago in the Devonian by a major meteorite impact. The original crater, now mostly eroded, is estimated to have been about 52 km (32 mi)
Mora (linguistics) five graphemes, because one of these graphemes (ょ) represents a Yōon, a feature on the Japanese writing system that indicates that the preceding mora is palatalized. In India, the mora was an acknowledged phenomenon well over two millennia ago in ancient Indian linguistics schools studying the dominant scholarly and religious lingua franca of Sanskrit. The mora was first expressed in India as the "mātrā". For example, the short vowel ""a"" (pronounced like a schwa) is assigned a value of one mātrā, the long vowel ""ā"" is assigned a value of two mātrās, and the compound vowel (diphthong) ""ai"" (which has