Firstly the most distinctive look about it is the horizontal line that’s above almost all the letters, it looks like a washing line with the letters hanging from it! So let’s learn a few things about Devanagari. Confusing hey! In Hindi every letters always has the same pronunciation*. This about the words ‘cat’ and 'city’, these both start with the letter 'c’, but they start with different sounds! Cat starts with a 'k’ sound and city and ’s’ sound. Now I’m going to tell you a fact you might not believe, ready? Compared to English, Hindi is much much easier to read! See I told you you wouldn’t believe me. Well don’t be put off, we’re here to teach you it all! These are the Hindi vowels - do you recon they look a little scary? Each language has it’s own slight modification to the alphabet - this is just like how the Latin alphabet (the one we’re using here!) is used for other languages like Spanish and French, which have their own modifications - like the letter é in French and ñ in Spanish. Devanagari is also used to write other languages, like Sanskrit, Nepali, Marathi and so on. Unfortunately we’re not going to be able to learn to read and write overnight, but slowly, step by step we’ll get there!ĭevanagari, or देवनागरी, is the name of the alphabet that Hindi is written in. Here’s I’m going to introduce you to some of the main concepts of this. So in Intro #1: About Hindi you may remember that it was briefly mentioned that Hindi is written in what’s called the Devanagari script.
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