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  2. Help:IPA/Hindi and Urdu - Wikipedia

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    It provides a set of symbols to represent the pronunciation of Hindi and Urdu in Wikipedia articles, and example words that illustrate the sounds that correspond to them. Integrity must be maintained between the key and the transcriptions that link here; do not change any symbol or value without establishing consensus on the talk page first.

  3. Bahnar language - Wikipedia

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    The Bahnar language or Ba-Na language (Bahnar pronunciation: [ˈbəˌnaː]) is a Central Bahnaric language. It has nine vowel qualities and phonemic vowel length . Subdivisions

  4. Phonological history of Hindustani - Wikipedia

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    Many of the Western Hindi dialects are transitional to Punjabi and the Northwestern Indo-Aryan languages, and have donated words to Hindustani that underwent Northwestern sound changes. We often encounter doublets like Hindustani makkhan "butter" , borrowed from Northwestern dialects (compare Punjabi makkhaṇ ), and Hindustani mākhan , the ...

  5. Hindustani phonology - Wikipedia

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    Hindustani is the lingua franca of northern India and Pakistan, and through its two standardized registers, Hindi and Urdu, a co-official language of India and co-official and national language of Pakistan respectively. Phonological differences between the two standards are minimal.

  6. List of languages by number of phonemes - Wikipedia

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    Hindi: Indo-European: 44 + (5) 33 + (5) 11 [22] Hungarian: Uralic language: 39: 25 14 The vowel phonemes can be grouped as pairs of short and long vowels such as o and ó. Most of the pairs have an almost similar pronunciation and vary significantly only in their duration. However, pairs a/á and e/é differ both in closedness and length ...

  7. Hindustani Academy - Wikipedia

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    The organization was established to enrich and popularize Hindi and its allied languages. Apart from preserving and promoting Hindi, its literature, and other forms like Urdu, Brajbhasha, Bhojpuri, and Awadhi, the academy aims to translate literary works from non-Hindi Indian languages and foreign languages into Hindi and promote original Hindi ...

  8. Hindustani orthography - Wikipedia

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    As a result of schwa syncope, the correct Hindi pronunciation of many words differs from that expected from a literal rendering of Devanagari. For instance, राम is Rām (incorrect: Rāma ), रचना is Rachnā (incorrect: Rachanā ), वेद is Véd (incorrect: Véda ) and नमकीन is Namkeen (incorrect Namakeena ).

  9. Hindustani grammar - Wikipedia

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    Native Hindi speakers pronounce व as [v] in vrat (व्रत – ورت, 'vow') and [w] in pakwān (पकवान – پکوان 'food dish'), treating them as a single phoneme and without being aware of the allophonic distinctions, though these are apparent to native English speakers.