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Hindi is written in the Devanagari script,
which is also the main script for Sanskrit
(The Classical Language of India).
Devanagari is pronounced as it is written.
This makes it quite easy to learn. The
script is written from left to right and has
no capital letters.Hindi is a phonetic
language, meaning that the way a word is
spelled corresponds to the way it is
pronounced, and vice versa. So you don't
find words like knife, with its mysteriously
silent k, in Hindi.
Special Symbols
Vowel suppressor: called virama, this symbol
is used to suppress the inherent vowel of a
syllable.
Nasalization marker: there is usually at
least one symbol which indicates
nasalization of vowels or other sounds. In
Devanagari, the anusvara and the candrabindu
play that role.
Breath marker: the visarga indicates that a
sound has a breathy quality.
Its script originated (and is still the
same) as ancient Sanskrit. The DevNagari
script is also common to several other
Indian languages.
The use of the special symbols varies widely
from one language to another.
Pronunciation in Hindi is relatively easy
since, unlike English, letters are always
pronounced exactly the same way.
There are 7 vowels, 33 consonants
and 3 conjunct consonants in
Hindi. Following are the Hindi Alphabets.
Vowels:
अ आ इ ई उ ऊ ऋ ए ऐ ओ औ अं अः
Consonants:
क ख ग घ ङ
च छ ज झ ञ
ट ठ ड ढ ण
त थ द ध न
प फ ब भ म
य र ल व
श ष स ह
Conjunct Consonants:
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