Help:IPA/Hindi and Urdu
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The charts below show the way in which the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) represents Hindustani (Hindi and Urdu) pronunciations in Wikipedia articles. For a guide to adding IPA characters to Wikipedia articles, see Template:IPA and Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Pronunciation § Entering IPA characters.
It is to be noted that Hindustani, as a pluricentric language, is written in two scripts—Devanagari and Perso-Arabic—and that the Devanagari script is used for Hindi (as well as sometimes for Urdu) in India, while the Perso-Arabic script is used for Urdu in India and Pakistan. There is a degree of somewhat mutual comprehension of scripts . In this way it may be compared to Persian and Serbo-Croatian.
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Notes
[edit]- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Hindi and Urdu contrast dental [t] and [d] with apical postalveolar [ʈ] and [ɖ] (as well as aspirated variants). Both sets sound like /t/ and /d/ to most English speakers although the dental [t] and [d] are used in place of the English /θ/ and /ð/ for some speakers with th-stopping.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 Mainly phonemes of Urdu. Hindi speakers may replace [x], [z], [ʒ], [ɣ], [q] and [f] with [kʰ], [dʒ], [dʒʱ], [g], [k] and [pʰ] respectively.
- ↑ In a number of words, the ع and/or ء is sometimes pronounced as ʔ in Urdu, which is typically not represented or pronounced in Hindi, except when the Urdu variant is transliterated into Hindi.
- ↑ "Meaning of etibar in English". Rekhta Dictionary. Retrieved 2023-03-18.
- 1 2 Mainly phonemes of Hindi. Urdu speakers usually replace [ɳ] and [ʂ] with [n] and [ʃ] respectively.
- 1 2 /ɾ/ can surface as a trill [r] in word-initial and syllable-final positions. Geminate /ɾː/ is always a trill.
- 1 2 [w] occurs as an allophone of [ʋ] when /व و/ is in an onglide position between an onset consonant and a following vowel while [ʋ], which may phonetically be [v], occurs otherwise.
- 1 2 [ɛ] and [ɔ] occur as allophones of /ə/ near an /ɦ/ that is surrounded on both sides by schwas. Usually, the second schwa becomes silent, which results in an [ɛ] and [ɔ] respectively, preceding an /ɦ/.
- ↑ Urdu transliteration. The Hindi variant is usually written as ऐतबार or एतबार (aitbār, ētbār). Rekhta Dictionary transliterates this term as ए'तिबार (ē'tibār) in Devanagari/Hindi.[4]