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I would say the reason is due to people changing the pronunciation over time rather than it being part of the actual grammar. Take for example Hyderabad. Looki
by ktta 9y ago
I would say the reason is due to people changing the pronunciation over time rather than it being part of the actual grammar.
Take for example Hyderabad. Looking at the Hindi spelling, it should be pronounced Hy-der-aa-bad. But it it pronounced more like Hai-dra-bad.
What I'm saying is that people made those changes which we got so used to in our day to day lives that most now regard them as the 'correct' pronunciation, but it isn't how they were supposed to be.
- Manishearth 9y agoThis isn't any different from what happens to pronunciation in English. The difference between English and Indic languages is simply that this has happened a lot more with English (also English kinda gets its words from all over the place) Pronunciation changes over time. Things which may have been highly phonetic may lose this property over time.