{"id":10,"date":"2009-03-08T18:25:30","date_gmt":"2009-03-08T23:25:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/hindi\/?p=5"},"modified":"2009-03-08T18:25:30","modified_gmt":"2009-03-08T23:25:30","slug":"the-hindi-consonants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/hindi\/the-hindi-consonants\/","title":{"rendered":"The Hindi Consonants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Namaste (<strong>\u0928\u092e\u0938\u094d\u0924\u0947<\/strong>)!<\/p>\n<p>Today we&#8217;re going to learn the Hindi consonants.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u0915 <\/strong>&#8211; is pronounced as the k in s<strong>K<\/strong>ip\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 You can see this in the Hindi word for pigeon (<span class=\"ehm\"><span class=\"ehm0\" title=\"Search \u0915\u092c\u0942\u0924\u0930\"><strong>\u0915\u092c\u0942\u0924\u0930<\/strong><\/span><\/span>)<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u0916<\/strong> &#8211; is pronounced as kh in sin<strong>KH<\/strong>ole\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 This sound can be heard in the word for rabbit (<span class=\"ehm\"><span class=\"ehm0\" title=\"Search \u0916\u0930\u0917\u094b\u0936\"><strong>\u0916\u0930\u0917\u094b\u0936<\/strong><\/span><\/span>).<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u0917<\/strong> &#8211; is like the g in <strong>G<\/strong>o\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Can be heard in the word for donkey (<span class=\"ehm\"><span class=\"ehm0\" title=\"Search \u0917\u0927\u093e\"><strong>\u0917\u0927\u093e<\/strong><\/span><\/span>).<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u0918<\/strong> &#8211; is the gh in do<strong>GH<\/strong>ouse\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The word for clock (<span class=\"ehm\"><span class=\"ehm0\" title=\"Search \u0918\u095c\u0940\"><strong>\u0918\u095c\u0940<\/strong><\/span><\/span>) contains this sound.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u0919<\/strong> &#8211; is the ng in ri<strong>NG <\/strong>There are no words beginning with nasal sounds.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u091a <\/strong>&#8211; the ch in <strong>Ch<\/strong>urn\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The word spoon (<span class=\"ehm\"><span class=\"ehm0\" title=\"Search \u091a\u092e\u094d\u092e\u091a\"><strong>\u091a\u092e\u094d\u092e\u091a<\/strong><\/span><\/span>) has this sound.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u091b &#8211; <\/strong>the chh in hit<strong>chh<\/strong>iker\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The word umbrella (<span class=\"ehm\"><span class=\"ehm0\" title=\"Search \u091b\u0924\u0930\u0940\"><strong>\u091b\u0924\u0930\u0940<\/strong><\/span><\/span>) has this sound.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u091c<\/strong> &#8211; the j in <strong>J<\/strong>ump\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The word for ship\u00a0(<span class=\"ehm\"><span class=\"ehm0\" title=\"Search \u091c\u0939\u093e\u091c\"><strong>\u091c\u0939\u093e\u091c<\/strong><\/span><\/span>) has this sound.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u091d<\/strong> &#8211; the dg do<strong>DG<\/strong>e\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The word for flag (<span class=\"ehm\"><span class=\"ehm0\" title=\"Search \u091d\u0902\u0921\u0940\"><strong>\u091d\u0902\u0921\u0940<\/strong><\/span><\/span>) has this sound<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u091e<\/strong> &#8211; the ny in ca<strong>NY<\/strong>on\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Nasal sounds in Hindi are used for Sanskrit (<span><strong>\u0938\u0902\u0938\u094d\u0915\u0943\u0924\u092e\u094d<\/strong><\/span>) loanwords and do not occur independently<\/p>\n<p>I think this is a good place to stop for today, next time we&#8217;ll continue with the rest of the consonants<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Namaste (\u0928\u092e\u0938\u094d\u0924\u0947)! Today we&#8217;re going to learn the Hindi consonants. \u0915 &#8211; is pronounced as the k in sKip\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 You can see this in the Hindi word for pigeon (\u0915\u092c\u0942\u0924\u0930) \u0916 &#8211; is pronounced as kh in sinKHole\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 This sound can be heard in the word for rabbit (\u0916\u0930\u0917\u094b\u0936). \u0917 &#8211; is like the g&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/hindi\/the-hindi-consonants\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[3792],"tags":[3821],"class_list":["post-10","post","type-post","status-publish","hentry","category-hindi-language","tag-hindi-consonants"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/hindi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/hindi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/hindi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/hindi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/hindi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/hindi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/hindi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/hindi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/hindi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}