History: Pronunciation guide in Hindi

Source of version: 1 (current)

'' 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 r__a__str-bh__a__s__a__ (national language) e d__e__n__e__ (give) i pahl__i__ (first) o praj__o__g (application), h__o__ (of) u p__u__ri tarah (fully, full manner/way) y - ai sth__ai__ prakriti (enduring nature) au - ei - oi - ia kri__ja__tmak (effective), __ja__tha (namely) ie li__je__ (for) ii - io pra__jo__g (application) iu - ua - ue - ui - uo - uu - b __bh__arat (India) -''there's no 'normal' __b__ in my sample text, sorry!'' c ki__sh__t (rate, instalment?) d __d__ene (give), __d__ija/__di__je (given), hin__d__i (Hindi) f - g a__g__ja-patra (laws) j - k sar__k__ari (official) l __l__e __l__egi (will take/occupy/replace) m kra__m__ (system) n __n__ishcaj (decision) p __p__arivartan (conversion) r __r__up (form) s __s__than (place, location), __s__ath-__s__ath (together with) t __t__arah (manner, form, way) v __v__ikas (developement), patra-__v__ja__v__ahar (correspondence) x - z ã'gre__z__i (English) ' __h__indi (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