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The Pronunciation of Urdu and Hindi

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 December 2009

T. Grahame Bailey
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It is difficult to write correctly about the grammar of a language; it is almost impossible to be accurate about its pronunciation. It follows that the weakest and most unsatisfactory part of books on a language is nearly always that which deals with sounds. The reasons are various. I give some of them here with special reference to Urdu and Hindi.

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Bulletin of SOAS , Volume 2 , Issue 3 , June 1922 , pp. 539 - 547
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Copyright © School of Oriental and African Studies 1922

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