![]() Table of Devanagari characters The Devanagari script and the Hindi Script The Hindi sound system The traditional order of Devanagari In this lesson you can learn about: How to write Devanagari For instance, to me it seems that the character for क ka looks a bit like a key, which is convenient because I can put the sound and shape of the character together. You have to learn to associate sounds and images and so as you are working your way through this lesson and discover what, for you, acts as a clue to help you associate a character and its sound. The main activity which you will have to do is essentially a creative one. You need to learn to recognise characters and the sounds they represent and to learn to draw characters and pronounce their sounds. In addition you need to learn four common conjunct consonants, a term which I will explain later. These sounds are represented in the Devanagari script by 13 characters traditionally regarded as vowels and 40 consonants. Hindi is normally spoken using a combination of around 52 sounds, ten vowels, 40 consonants, nasalisation and a kind of aspiration. Hindi is mostly written in a script called Nagari or Devanagari. Nasalization and nasal consonants 2 Topic 0.1: What this lesson contains The idea of learning a new script may seem forbidding to begin with but actually the script in which Hindi is written is fairly easy to learn, fun to draw and quite beautiful.Vowels combined with consonants ( mātrās ).Common conjunct characters and other sounds and symbols.The Devanagari script and the Hindi sound system.INTRODUCTION Devanagari script In this lesson you can learn about: ![]()
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