Hindi

ManjariOhala
English, Department of Linguistics and Language Development and Department of

San Jose State

University,

San Jose,

CA

95192,

USA

The

variety described here

is

speakers in cities such as

differences in pronunciation

Standard Hindi used in everyday casual speech by educated Varanasi, Lucknow, Delhi, etc. Although there are a few

among

speakers of these

cities,

the differences are minimal.

The

based on a recording of a female third-generation speaker of Standard Delhi. For a detailed analysis Hindi who grew up mostly in Uttar Pradesh before moving to Ohala (1983). and Dixit (1963) see of Hindi segments,
transcription
is

Consonants

Illustrations

of the IPA

101

tj

tjal

'gait*

ds
tj^
djfi

dsd
tj^al
djfi^i

'net'

'tree bark*

'glimmer*
(tree species)

Jal

102

Handbook of

the IPA

Illustrations

of the IPA

103

Transcription of recorded passage The North Wind and the Sun' is a modified version of that presented the 1949 version of the Principles of the International Phonetic Association.
This translation of

in

utiori hsua or surods is bat pgr ds^sg^r f^he t^e ki horn dono me zjada boluan kon he. itne me gorom tjoga pehne ek musafir udfi^r a nikla. hsm Of surgds dono is bat por razi ho gsje ki don5 me se dso pehle musafir ka tJoga utortia dega ushi zjada bsluan somd3fia d3ajega. is p^r utisri houa

spna pura zor bgaksr tjolne bgi lekm uo dsese d3ese ^pna zor b^r^ati g9ji vese Dese musafir spne bodsn psr tjoge ko or bfii zjada kss ksr bpefta goja. 9nt me houa ne opni kojij bond kor di. p^ir sursdj tezi ke sat^ mkla or musafir ne turont opna tJoga utar dija. is hje hsua ko manna "psra ki un dono me surods hi zjada bsluan he.
Orthographic version

^>T 1

?cT^r

q qr^ ^>rT q^

ij^ j^ifti^

^yr

stt I^^tctt

sfk

^t^

^^
^>T

^i^n" ^"cT^TT ^FT^T ^T^m"

W^

^Tlfr

Sfcprr

J^ ^1^ cTTTT^R-

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5Ft sflr ^ft
i

^^
I

ft^T

w f^

Acknowledgements
I

thank John Ohala for his help with the software implementation of the IPA transcription.
Jain for her

also thank

Usha

comments on

the translation and for her assistance with the software for the Devanagari.

References
Dixit, R. P. (1963). The Segmental Phonemes of Contemporary Hindi. University of Texas, Austin.

M. A.

thesis,

Ohala, M. Ohala, M.

(1983). Aspects of Hindi Phonology. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass.

(1991). Phonological areal features of

some Indo- Aryan languages. Language

Science 13 107-24.

Ohala, M. and Ohala,

J. J. (1993). Phonetic universals and Hindi segment durations. Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, 831-4. Edmonton: University of Alberta.

Handbook

of the International Phonetic Association

A Guide

to the

Use

of the International Phonetic Alphabet

International Phonetic Association, July 1999.