#264 – Hindi sounds (part 1)
June 30, 2008 1:28 am in Beginner, Letters and Sounds, Meena, Naraindas, Nathan by admin
(Unfortunately the bigger size text looks good on the website but does not look right when people get it in their email. I will have to research it some more and try something different. Back to the letters words for now…)
Today we are going to look at the consonants and vowels in Hindi.
क (ka) ख (kha) ग (ga) घ (gha) ङ (ng)
च (cha) छ (chha) ज (ja) झ (jha) ञ (na)
ट (ta) ठ (tha) ड (da) ढ (dha) ण (na)
त (ta) थ (tha) द (da) ध (dha) न (na)
प (pa) फ (pha) ब (ba) भ (bha) म (ma)
य (ya) र (ra) ल (la) व (va) श (sha)
ष (sha) स (sa) ह (ha)
क्ष (ksha) त्र (tra) ज्ञ (jna)
Vowels:
अ (a) आ (aa)
इ (i) ई (ii)
उ (u) ऊ (uu)
ए (e) ऐ (ei)
ओ (o) औ (ou)
अं (an)
Notice that there are several Hindi characters that have the same English letters associated with them. These do NOT make the same sound. There are subtle differences between these characters that are difficult to represent in the English letters. I would strongly recommend that you learn the Hindi characters to avoid confusion caused by trying to write Hindi letters using the English script.
You will be able to understand these lessons more if you have the Kid’s Primer (http://www.ispeakhindi.com/2008/06/26/260-kids-primer-intro/)



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