#th is also used for द !

[niadotcom]

a lot of hindi words written in roman script use r for the ड़ (not ड) sound. arora, rathore, chhindwara, mewar, etc. because english lacks letters lol. "d" is already used for both द and ड no?

okay i see that's my point. ड़ has different sounds in the words arora and rathore (sosmetimes pronounces as rathod no? correct me if im wrong please) . it makes more sense to write words as they are especially if we're using a different script altogether

[gwendolynlerman]

Languages of the world

Fiji Hindi (फिजी बात/Fiji Baat)

Basic facts

Number of native speakers: 460,000

Official language: Fiji

Also spoken: Australia, Canada, New Zealand, United States

Script: Devanagari, 47 letters/Latin, 36 letters

Grammatical cases: 0

Linguistic typology: fusional, SOV

Language family: Indo-European, Indo-Iranian, Indo-Aryan, Central Zone, Western Hindi

Number of dialects: ?

History

1997 - Fiji Hindi becomes an official language of Fiji

Writing system and pronunciation

These are the letters that make up the Devanagari script: अआ इ ई उ ऊ ए ऐ ओ औ अः क ख ग घ ङ च छ ज झ ञ ट ठ ड ड़ ढ ढ़ ण त थ द ध न प फ ब भ म य र ल व श ष स ह.

These are the letters that make up the Latin script: a b bh ch chh d dh e f g gh h i j jh k kh l m n o p ph q r s sh t th tth u v w x y z.

Long vowels tend to be shortened before stressed syllables.

Grammar

Nouns have two genders (masculine and feminine) and two numbers (singular and plural).

There is no definite article, but definiteness can be expressed using suffixes.

Verbs are conjugated for tense, mood, aspect, person, and number. Gender is distinguished in the third-person past tense.

Dialects

There seems to be no dialectal variation.