Pronunciation of Swar, Vyanjan, Barah Khadi - 1

 

This is a post on the pronunciation of Hindi vowels (Swar), consonants (Vyanjan) and Hindi words. 

Many subscribers requested this particular topic to help them teach their English speaking kids.

Hindi is highly phonetic; the pronunciation of any Hindi word can be reliably predicted from their written form which is in strong contrast to English.

I have uploaded the worksheets of Swar (Vowels) and Consonants (Vyanjans) and Barah Khadi  (बारह खड़ी) in this post.

In these worksheets I have used IPA symbols along with transliteration to help in pronouncing alphabets/words of Hindi.

It is important to be able to distinguish between short and long vowels for correct pronunciation because these vowels, in combination with consonants are used to form words.

It is important to note that many consonants which are part of Hindi language do not exist in English.

I am also sharing the link of Wikipedia which has audio files of all the Devanagari letters, just an added information to help in pronouncing the Swar and Vyanjan.

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Devanagari_pronunciation  

I sincerely hope that these worksheets are useful in teaching the Hindi language to English speaking kids. 

In the next post, I would be posting the Varnamala (Swar & Vyanjan) with symbols for correct pronunciation. 

In case of any queries feel free to get in touch.

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