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Help[Facts] pronunciation question - Radha
This threw me:
http://www.behindthename.com/polls/view.php?id=44541
The poster of this poll wants Radha pronounced "row-a." Is that correct pronunciation in Sanskrit (or in any language, for that matter)?
I found Sanskrit rules on Wikipedia but my computer won't display the font so I can't read it :-(
- chazda
http://www.behindthename.com/polls/view.php?id=44541
The poster of this poll wants Radha pronounced "row-a." Is that correct pronunciation in Sanskrit (or in any language, for that matter)?
I found Sanskrit rules on Wikipedia but my computer won't display the font so I can't read it :-(
- chazda
This message was edited 11/20/2005, 5:53 PM
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Yes, thank you. I was beginning to think I'd just asked a question so stupid, no one was going to stoop to answer it.. LOL. Appreciate your answer. I guess the poll writer was just making it up.
- chazda
- chazda
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In Sanskrit rAdhA (prosperity, from the root rAdh, to succeed) is pronounced as two clear syllables rA foolowed by dhA. The A is closest approximated by the English a in car. The r is like in English, not like in French. The dh is a dental voiced aspirate, a sound that does not exist, to my knowledge, in English: it is like the th in the but with aspiration. Try speaking the th sound of the with the h sound of he together to make the th-h into one consonant, and that is it.
Modern Indoaryan languages are mostly unstressed.
I do not know of any Indian language where the pronounciation differs substantially from the one I tried to describe above.
Modern Indoaryan languages are mostly unstressed.
I do not know of any Indian language where the pronounciation differs substantially from the one I tried to describe above.
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