Telugu Baalasiksha with Manu
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Hello and we're back! Omg the response I got for the first part (where we covered vowels) was deafening, we're tagging a lot more people and even @aasthuu has started her own Bangla Shikkha Prokolpo📝📝 which I'm loving so far!
I'd love to see y'all writing whatever we do in every post so that you'll remember. As my grandma says, "Whatever curves you think you'll remember, you will not. So write them down." Just reblog my Baalasiksha posts with your input/homework/doubts or mention me or tag it as 'telugu with manu' and we can work on it together❤️
Today, we are going to get to our second checkpoint - consonants aka "hallulu" like " हल्लुलु "
Consonants
(there are a lot of these so buckle up, don't freak out, i can give you tips to remember them too)
క = क = ka (write it like an S and put a tick over it)
ఖ = ख = kha (write a coil type 2 but extend the end upwards, put a reverse tilak at the bottom)
గ = ग = ga (an inverted U and put a tick over it)
ఘ = घ = gha (write the vowel 'ఎ' and put a tick over it, then stick a follow up curve like a tilted half U. top it off with a reverse tilak at the bottom)
ఙ = ञ = inya (write the vowel ఒ (short o), then put a perpendicular sign) ****in telugu inya is used instead of gya, so "gyan/ज्ञान" is pronounced "inyan"
చ = च = cha (like chair) (start with a half च but take it for another bump, top it off with a tick - i'll show dw)
ఛ = छ = chha (like "achhoo!") (write చ, put a reverse tilak at the bottom)
జ = ज = ja (hard g) (write the vowel ఒ (short o), then put a coil at the neck)
ఝ = झ = jha (i'll write and show down below)
ఞ = इणि = ini (write ఇ and put a perpendicular sign at the neck)
ట = ट = hard t ("tip") (i'll write and show down below)
ఠ = ठ = ttha (force the hh sound also with the hard t) (write ठ without the stem, top it off with a tick, also dot in the belly)
డ = ड = da ("don't") (write ఉ without the stem or the rod bisecting it through, top it off with a tick)
ఢ = forceful ढ ("dhol") (write ఉ without the stem or the rod bisecting it through, top it off with a tick and reverse tilak at the bottom)
ణ = ण = roll your 'na' (a flipped '3' and make a standing coil, i'll show)
త = त = "tabla" (i'll show an easier way to write below)
థ = थ = "thaali" (a reverse heart, top off with a tick mark, reverse tilak at the bottom, dot in the belly)
ద = द = "the" (a reverse heart, top off with a tick mark)
ధ = ध = like a bang, dhum (a reverse heart, top off with a tick mark, reverse tilak at the bottom)
న = न = "no" (i'll show an easier way to write below)
ప = प = pa (write the vowel ఎ (e) put a tick mark without touching the body) ****do not confuse for the vowel ఎ
ఫ = फ but without ph emphasis = fa (write the letter ప and put a reverse tilak at the bottom) ****do not confuse for the vowel ఎ
బ = ब = ba (write the letter ఋ but without the 2 trailing half 'U's) ****do not confuse for ఋ (ru) or ఒ (short o) or జ (hard g)
భ = भ = bha (write the letter బ, top it off with a tick mark, put a reverse tilak at the bottom) ****do not confuse for ఋ (ru) or ఒ (short o) or జ (hard g)
మ = म = ma (write the vowel ఎ (e) put a tick mark touching it, put a trailing tilted half U, i'll show below) ****do not confuse for ఘ (gha) or ప (pa)
య = य = ya (write the letter మ but with a bigger circle) ****do not confuse for ఘ (gha) or ప (pa) or మ (ma)
ర = र = ra (don't roll it) (a circle with a tick, easy peasy)
ల = ल = la (a bulging U coiled on the top left end)
వ = व = va (write the vowel ఎ (e) put a tick mark touching it) ****do not confuse for ఘ (gha) or ప (pa) or మ (ma) or య (ya) or vowel ఎ (e)
శ = स्य = sya (or sa as in "Sally") (sort of like a half 8 with a tick, i'll show y'all below)
ష = ष = sha (write the vowel ఎ (e) put a tick mark without touching the body, put a small flipped comma/small '|' beneath. it can be written in another way, i'll show) ****do not confuse for ఘ (gha) or ప (pa) or మ (ma) or య (ya) or vowel ఎ (e) or వ (va)
స = स = sa (write న except don't let the tick mark touch the body) ****do not confuse for న (na)
హ = ह = ha (write ప (pa) and drag a reverse sigma 'σ' from the body's top)
ళ = the ल equivalent of ण (ळ in Marathi) = roll your la (sort of like a half 8 again, with a tick, will show) ****do not confuse for శ (sya)
క్ష = क्ष = ksha (write క (ka) and draw 2 and a half 'U's below) ⁘⁘⁘ so we're technically writing it like क्-षा
AAAAAAND we're done! (phew)
Okay that was long, 35 consonants and some sounds that are inexistent in English. These can be confusing at times, but i really want you all (whoever is planning on sticking through this and learn Telugu) to write every letter down till you can remember how to read it/pronounce it. Reading should come as first priority as you'll seldom be asked to write only in Telugu, but reading can unlock a lot of lingual fun. So make sure of that my honeydrips.
Here's a picture encompassing all the consonants we have learnt today, written by hand so that we can have a good idea of the shapes outside of print.
homework
write this down at least 5 times (the 5th time try to have learnt it by heart), post it and tag me or dm me/send via asks
so that's it for today phew sorry baccho aaj class thoda lamba gaya😜 aur kya haal chaal, did you understand what we did yesterday? take care ha, i need to go scramble for french and maybe some kathak
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ष is the second sibilant consonant of the Hindi script and is described as a voiceless retroflex fricative. It's a loan sound from Sanskrit and some sources say that in modern Hindi its pronunciation hardly differs from that of the previous sibilant श. You can notice the difference however when comparing where the sibilant forms in your mouth when pronouncing नष्ट [naṣṭ] or नाश्ता [nāśtā].
There are only a few irregular consonant conjuncts with ष, one being ष + ट = ष्ट as seen above, ष + ठ = ष्ठ as in निष्ठा [niṣṭhā] and क + ष = क्ष as in शिक्षा [śikṣā] (and yes here I am pronouncing this word repeatedly while writing this trying to hear if I can make two different sh-sounds in one word and kind of maybe?).
Anyway, ष is very rare as the initial letter of any word in Hindi, and all words written with it are loan words from Sanskrit. So far I've only encountered two words starting with it - and with these too we can see that they seek their place close to other retroflex sounds:
षड्यंत्र [ṣaḍyantra] - conspiracy (masculine)
षट्कोण [ṣaṭkoṇ] - hexagon (masculine)
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Languages of the world
Saraiki (سرائیکی/ਸਰਾਇਕੀ/सराइकी)
Basic facts
Number of native speakers: 26 million
Spoken in: India, Pakistan
Script: Persian, 66 letters/Gurmukhi, 56 letters/Devanagari, 66 letters
Grammatical cases: 4
Linguistic typology: fusional, SOV
Language family: Indo-European, Indo-Iranian, Indo-Aryan, Northwestern, Lahnda
Number of dialects: 6
History
early 20th century - the Multani script stops being used
1960s - the Saraiki language identity emerges
Writing system and pronunciation
These are the letters that make up the Persian script: پ ٻ بھ ب آ ا ا جھ ج ث ٹ تھ ت پھ دھ د خ ح چھ چ ڄ ط ض ص ش س ز ڑھ کھ ک ق ف غ ع ظ م لا لھ ل ڰ گھ گ و و ݨ ں نھ ن مھ ﺉ ى ى ى ھ ہ و ۓ ے.
These are the letters that make up the Gurmukhi script: ਅ ਆ ਇ ਈ ਉ ਊ ਏ ਐ ਓ ਔ ਅਂ ਕ ਖ ਗ ਘ ਙ ਘ ਚ ਛ ਜ ਝ ਝ ਟ ਠ ਡ ਢ ਣ ਟ੍ਰ ਡ੍ਰ ਢ੍ਰ ਢ਼ ਢ ੜ਼ ੜ਼ ਤ ਥ ਦ ਧ ਨ ਨ੍ਹ ਪ ਫ ਬ ਭ ਮ ਭ ਮ੍ਹ ਯ ਰ ਲ ਵ ਰ ਲ਼ ਸ਼ ਸ ਹ.
These are the letters that make up the Devanagari script: अ आ इ ई उ ऊ ए ऐ ओ औ अँ क ख ग घ ङ ॻ च छ ज झ ॼ ट ठ ड ढ ण ट्र ड्र ढ्र ड़ ढ़़ ॾ ॾ़ त थ द ध न न्ह प फ ब भ म ॿ म्ह य र ल व ऱ ल्ह श स ह.
Vowel nasalization is distinctive, and consonants can be voiced and voiceless and aspirated and unaspirated.
Grammar
Nouns have two genders (masculine and feminine), two numbers (singular and plural), and four cases (direct, oblique, vocative, and ablative).
Demonstrative and relative adjectives can be used as personal pronouns as well. Postpositions are used.
Verbs are conjugated for tense, mood, aspect, person, and number.
Dialects
There are five dialects: Central, Southern, Sindhi, Northern, and Eastern. Sindhi Saraiki is closely related to Sindhi.
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