Sanskrit梵文天城体美版教材 语音综合章Devanagari Script.pdfVIP

Devanagari Script: Short vowels is pronounced as in cup, bus etc. is pronounced as in inform, init etc. is pronounced as in look, book etc. has no direct equivalent and is pronounced somewhere in between ri and ru, like crystal. is also like and is pronounced somewhere in between li and lu similar to glycerene. Devanagari Script: Long vowels The eight long vowels are The first four are the long forms of the corresponding short vowels. and are long vowels which do not have short forms in Sanskrit. and are often likened to diphthongs though they are not strictly combinations of two vowels. is pronounced as in far, bar, fall etc. is pronounced as in easy, eagle etc. is pronounced as in rooster, fool etc. is the long form of is pronounced as in fable, gray etc. is pronounced as in my, fly etc. is pronounced as in road, goat etc. is pronounced as in down, noun etc. The Support Vowels The two support vowels are known as ubhayakshara and are mostly appended to syllables. They are not used independently like other vowels. They add specific sounds to the syllables they are appended to. These two support vowels are represented using the first vowel . The first is known as the anuswara and the second visarga The anuswara adds a sound similar to the sound of m in sum to the syllable. The visarga adds a