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Modern Colloquial Hindustani

1916

It is impossible to make a book of this kind approach completeness yet it is hoped that by reference to the variousxvi heads of the subjects and with the aid of the vocabulary the construction of other necessary sentences will be rendered a matter of little difficulty to those who study these pages. [...] Urdu is a mixture of several languages and is composed of words borrowed from the Persian and Arabic and is mixed freely with those of Bhasha a dialect of Sanskrit which was the ancient language of the Hindus. [...] Still the learner of Hindustani need never be in doubt like the learner of English is as to the pronunciation of the vowels. [...] 35 y y as y in yard youth.4 NOTE.—The object of making distinctions in the letters of the alphabet in the foregoing table is to enable the reader to write out the phrases correctly in the Hindustani characters but the learner who only wishes to acquire a colloquial knowledge. [...] They should be pronounced as "ph " in " up-hill " and not as " ph" in " phrase." The letters " kh " and " gh " without the dash beneath are to be sounded as they are in the compounds " ink-horn" and " dog-house " and must not be confounded with the 46 kh and “ gh” underlined.
language linguistics
Pages
241
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.144774
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-xviii J. R. Hakim view
The Alphabet
1-5 J. R. Hakim view
Part I
6-142 J. R. Hakim view
Part II
143-195 J. R. Hakim view
Part III
196-223 J. R. Hakim view

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