Common Pronunciation Patterns - Hindi

sound error pattern Example

p can sound like “b” at the start of words pay sounds like bay

t can sound like “d” at the start of words to sounds like do

k can sound like “g” at the start of words cap sounds like gap

b can sound like “p” at the ends of words robe sounds like rope

d can sound like “t” at the ends of words, or be left off the code sounds like coat,
ends of words or we’d sounds like we

g can sound like “k” at the ends of words pig sounds like pick

v can sound like w at the start of words, very sounds like wary
can sound like f at the ends of words leave sounds like leaf

th (as in “think”) can sound like t at the start or ends of words thing sounds like ting
with sounds like wit

th (as in can sound like d at the start or ends of words those sounds like dose
“those”) breathe sounds like breed

z can sound like s at the ends of words buzz sounds like bus

dʒ can sound like ch or ʒ at the ends of words ridge sounds like rich or
riʒ

ng can have an extra g or k sound, can sound like n thing sounds like think or
thin

r can be rolled

w can sound like v at the start of words why sounds like vie

consonant can have sounds left off or have the same errors listed lived sounds like live,
clusters (more above want sounds like wan,
than one words sounds like word
consonant
sound
together)

/ɪ/ “vowel ɪ” as can sound like vowel ee it sounds like eat

in “it”

© Christine Dunbar, Speech Modification 2018-19

 Common Pronunciation Patterns - Hindi

/e/ “vowel ay” can sound like vowel eh wait sounds like wet
as in “ate”

/æ/ “vowel a” can sound like vowel ah cat sounds like cot
as in “at”

/a/ “vowel ah” can sound like vowel o not sounds like note
as in “hot”

/ʊ/ “vowel U” as can sound like vowel oo look sounds like Luke
in wood

/ʌ, ə/ “vowel can be pronounced like the written letter rather than the banana sounds like “bah-
schwa” as in American “uh” sound nah-nah” rather than
but “buh-nah-nuh”

/ɝ,ɚ/ “vowel can be rolled, or sound like vowel schwa bird sounds like bud
er” as in “bird”

© Christine Dunbar, Speech Modification 2018-19