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This is the pronunciation key for IPA transcriptions of Hindi and Urdu on Wikipedia. It provides a set of symbols to represent the pronunciation of Hindi and Urdu in Wikipedia articles, and example words that illustrate the sounds that correspond to them.
As designated in Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Pronunciation, the standard set of symbols used to show the pronunciation of English words on Wikipedia is the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). The IPA has significant advantages over this respelling system, as it can be used to accurately represent pronunciations from any language in the world ...
Note that Hindi–Urdu transliteration schemes can be used for Punjabi as well, for Gurmukhi (Eastern Punjabi) to Shahmukhi (Western Punjabi) conversion, since Shahmukhi is a superset of the Urdu alphabet (with 2 extra consonants) and the Gurmukhi script can be easily converted to the Devanagari script.
Normally, pronunciation is given only for the subject of the article in its lead section. For non-English words and names, use the pronunciation key for the appropriate language. If a common English rendering of the non-English name exists (Venice, Nikita Khrushchev), its pronunciation, if necessary, should be indicated before the non-English one.
So there is no real standard here. But obviously, listing Devanagari alone is wrong, and adding Urdu letters will render the table impenetrable. However, our best keys only rely on sample words (e.g. Help:IPA/French, Help:IPA/Japanese, Help:IPA/Tamil), including keys with two scripts (Help:IPA/Serbo-Croatian, Help:IPA/Punjabi). So I agree to ...
Your opinion "Native English speakers in fact do pronounce 'khana' as 'kana' using 'k' instead of 'kh' " is wrong, because "most Hindi-Urdu–learning native English speakers tend to pronounce all voiceless stops with aspiration, all voiced stops without aspiration" (and the reason why they may perceive [t] as [d] is also this), according to my ...
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Because of the nature of onomatopoeia, there are many words which show a similar pronunciation in the languages of the world. The following is a list of some conventional examples: The following is a list of some conventional examples: