how to learn sandhi of hindi grammar
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Hindi is an Indian language of the Indo-Aryan family spoken in the northern part of the country. It is spoken by over 500 million people worldwide and is one of the main languages in India. Many (though not all!) Indians who might have Gujarati, Punjabi, Kannada, Tamil, Bengali or Marathi as their native tongue speak Hindi as a second language.
But it’s one thing to learn grammar and set phrases, and another to learn to speak like a native speaker. Here are a few suggestions to help you improve your conversational Hindi.
A Guide to the Hindi Alphabet
The Hindi script is called Devanagari and was first used to write Sanskrit.
It is a little different from our alphabet, in that each consonant is actually a syllable: its phonetic value consists of a consonant sound + a.
To write consonant sound + other vowel sound, you must modify the consonant using diacritic signs.
Vowels also exist as independent signs, but these are only used if a vowel stands on its own or at the beginning of a word.
In other words, when learning the Hindi alphabet, you not only have to learn the Hindi letter for the consonant and vowel sounds but also how each consonant is modified depending on the vowel following it.
To further complicate matters, frequent consonant combinations are often slightly modified and written as one letter, so-called ligatures.
All this makes learning Hindi vocabulary all the more challenging!