Re: Hindi characters for transcribing the sound "e"

[Aman Chawla]

 Yes, I am a native speaker. The Hindi word for dirt is मैल The vowel in this sounds like the vowel in the English word 'shall' (also, like the first vowel sound in the English word 'rally') and not at all like the vowel in 'bed' or 'red'. However, the Hindi word for harmony which is मेल has a vowel which does sound like the vowel sound in the English word 'bake'. In any case, the vowel sound that I am talking about is neither the one in 'shall' nor the one in 'bake', rather the one in 'bed', 'red', 'said', etc. ----- Original Message ----- From: Patrick Andries To: Aman Chawla Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2002 1:42 AM Subject: Re: Hindi characters for transcribing the sound "e" Do you speak Hindi ? Does the word for dirt have a vowel that sounds like bed/red ? Does the word for harmony one that sounds like bake ? How do they sound for you ? If these pairs of word do not sound  alike, Manjari Ohala is wrong in his article about Hindi phonetics in the Handbook of the International Phonetic Association.... Aman Chawla wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] type="cite"> Actually, I am not talking about the sound in hay or bake or the Hindi words for dirt or harmony. Rather, the sound in bed, red, dead, led, fed, said, etc. ----- Original Message ----- From:Patrick Andries To: Aman Chawla Sent: Monday, January 14, 2002 10:24 PM Subject: Re: Hindi characters for transcribing the sound "e" Aman Chawla a écrit : [EMAIL PROTECTED] type="cite"> With reference to the FAQ: http://www.unicode.org/unicode/faq/indic.html#13 , I would like to know what are the Hindi characters used to transcribe the sound "e" (as in English "bet", "bed", "red" etc.) in Unicode. Thanks English vowels, I'm not too sure about them. Let's see, are you speak of the sound "e" (the open mid-front unrounded vowel) as in Hindi  /mƐl/ ("dirt" according to my sources) and not /mel/ ("harmony") ? I believe it is often translitterated "ai" and could be transcribed back in Hindi with  ऐ or ै (U+0910, U+0948 as a diacritic) although it is originally a diphtong. The English closed mid-front unrounded vowel /e/ (as in hay or bake) would be transcribe with a U+090E ऎ . Patrick Andries