Pronunciation guide in Hindi

I just want to give it a try and start this chart with my - admittedly - poor knowledge of the language Hindi. I'm having available here a narrow vocabulary and some knowledge of Hindi phonology.
First, we'd have to decide which contrasts should match the Lojban voiced/unvoiced consonant pairs, since most Hindi consonants can be distinguished according voiced/unvoiced, aspirated/unaspirated, retroflex/'normal', which e.g. for the dental stops or labial plosives means:
'd - dh - d(retro) - dh(retro) - t - th - t(retro) - th(retro)'
'b - bh - b(retro) - bh(retro) - p - ph - p(retro) - ph(retro)'
etc.
The vowels are:
'a, i, u, e, o' - each coming in pairs: short-open (a, i, u) or moreorless long-moreorless closed (e, o). There are still two diphtongs 'ae-e' and 'o-o' with pretty different articulation according different local pronunciation. So what?


a rastr-bhasa (national language)
e dene (give)
i pahli (first)
o prajog (application), ho (of)
u puri tarah (fully, full manner/way)
y -
ai sthai prakriti (enduring nature)
au -
ei -
oi -

ia krijatmak (effective), jatha (namely)
ie lije (for)
ii -
io prajog (application)
iu -

ua -
ue -
ui -
uo -
uu -

b bharat (India) -there's no 'normal' b in my sample text, sorry!
c kisht (rate, instalment?)
d dene (give), dija/dije (given), hindi (Hindi)
f -
g agja-patra (laws)
j -
k sarkari (official)
l le legi (will take/occupy/replace)
m kram (system)
n nishcaj (decision)
p parivartan (conversion)
r rup (form)
s sthan (place, location), sath-sath (together with)
t tarah (manner, form, way)
v vikas (developement), patra-vjavahar (correspondence)
x -
z ã'grezi (English)
' hindi (the language Hindi)

Comments, corrections and improvements are highly welcome :-) and - needed! :— ((.aulun.

Needed urgently, folks; if I don't get what I need soon, I'm going to Berlitz. By soon, I mean end of November 2002. — nitcion


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