Hindi alphabet

 


 

Hindi alphabet

 

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Hindi alphabet

 

Hindi Tutorial

Hindi Alphabet

Just as the English alphabet have vowels and consonants. Here you can familiarize yourself with the Hindi alphabet - Hindi Varnamala.

Hindi is mostly written in a script called Nagari or Devanagari. Hindi is normally spoken using a combination of 52 sounds - 10 vowels, 40 consonants, nasalisation and a kind of aspiration. These sounds are represented in the Devanagari script by 52 symbols: for 10 vowels, 2 modifiers and 40 consonants. You will also need to learn to recognize a character that traditionally represented a vowel but does not any longer, and four common conjunct consonants, which is actually a total of 57 symbols to remember to begin with.

Once you have learnt the basic characters you will then be easily able to learn the shorthand (matra) symbols for the vowels and the conjunct characters.

 

Vowels

Hindi alphabets have ten vowels and two modifiers which are given below. The symbols shown below the alphabets are known as "matra" symbols. Matra symbols are used when consonants and vowels are to be written together.

 





a

aa/A

e/i

ee/ii

u

oo/uu






ai

aai

o

ou

aM

aH

 

Vowels Not In Common Use

r^

r^^

l^

l^^

AUM

 

 

Consonants

Consonants in Hindi alphabet are shown below –

 

ka

kha

ga

gha

nga

cha

chha

ja

jha

nja

Ta

Tha

Da

Dha

Na

ta

tha

da

dha

na

pa

pha / fa

ba

bha

ma

ya

ra

la

va/wa

Sha

shh

sa

ha

ksh

tra

 

 

 

 

jnja

 

 

 

 

 

Dot+Consonants (Extensions)

 

क़

ख़

ग़

ज़

ड़

ढ़

फ़

य़

.na

.ra

.La

.ka

.kha

.ga

.ja

.Da

.Dha

.fa

.ya

 

Hindi Number System

Digits and their equivalent Arabic/English figures are given below.

 

shuny

ek

do

teen

char

panch

chhah

saat

aath

nao

0

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

Though Hindi numerals are quite different than Arabic ones, you can use Arabic numerals in most of official communications in Hindi language too. The use, however, should be consistent throughout your written page.

 

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