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Character Frequency: Hindi (हिन्दी)

Below you can see a table showing the frequencies of letters, as they occur in the Hindi language. This list was created with the Unicode Counter, which is integrated in the WordCreator. Basis of this list were some Hindi texts with together 978.430 characters (238.604 words), 736.216 characters were used for the counting. The texts consist of a good mix of different literary genres. Of course, if other texts were used as a basis, the result would be slightly different.

The list may only be used together with the publishing of the internet adress stefantrost.de and the prior consent of Stefan Trost (contact).

The left list is sorted according to the letters, the right list in accordance with the frequency of the letters. Accordingly, the letters ा, क and े are the most common letters in the Hindi language.

Usage Note

The list may only be used together with the publishing of the internet adress stefantrost.de and the prior consent of Stefan Trost (contact). If you need additional lists, for example in a different sorting or on the basis of another source, we can provide this list for only five euros. Simply write to us.

The Hindi Alphabet

In the following two tables, you can see the letters from Hindi. The vowels are listed in the first table. In the first two colums, you can see how the letters look like when they appear alone or in combination with another letter. After that, it is shown how to pronounce the letters and which Latin letter is used if a Hindi text is transferred to the Latin alphabet (inscription, transcription). The shown transcription can be done with the software Text Converter automatically. Further information, you can read on the page Transcriptions.

Alone	Combi	Phonetic	Pronounce	Transcription
अ	अ	kurz	short E	A
आ	ा	long	long A	Ā
इ	ि	short	short I	I
ई	ी	long	long I	Ī
उ	ु	short	short U	U
ऊ	ू	long	long U	Ū
ऋ	ृ	short	voweled-R	Ŕ
ए	े	long	long E	E
ऐ	ै	long	long Ä	AI
ओ	ो	long	long O	O
औ	ौ	long	long O	AU

In the second table, you can see an overview of the Hindi consonants. Again, the appearance of the letter, the phonetics, the pronounciation and the transcription is indicated.

Letter	Phonetic	Pronounce	Transcription
ब	labial	B	B
भ	labial	BH	BH
द	dental	D	D
ड	retroflex	D	Ḍ
ध	dental	DH	DH
ढ	retroflex	DH	ḌH
ग	guttural	G	G
घ	guttural	GH	GH
ह	guttural	H	H
ज	palatal	J	J
झ	palatal	J	JH
य	palatal	J	Y
क	guttural	K	K
ख	guttural	KH	KH
म	labial	M	M
न	dental	N	N
ञ	palatal	N	Ñ
ण	retroflex	N	Ṇ
ङ	guttural	N	Ṇ
ल	dental	L	L
प	labial	P	P
फ	labial	PH	PH
र	retroflex	R	R
स	dental	S	S
ष	retroflex	SCH	Ṣ
श	palatal	SCH	Ś
च	palatal	TSCH	C
छ	palatal	TSCH	CH
त	dental	T	T
ट	retroflex	T	Ṭ
थ	dental	T	TH
ठ	retroflex	T	ṬH
व	labial	W	V

If you want to learn the characters from the Hindi Alphabet, you can use one of the questionnaires of the AnwerCoach, you can get here.

Convert Hindi to Latin

To convert a text consisting of Hindi letters to Latin letters or vice versa, you can use the software Text Converter. The shown transcription is supported by this program, so that you can immediately start with your transcriptions. You can read further information and an explanation of the procedure on the page Transcriptions.

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