I've noticed that when Hindi is I guess transliterated phonetically transcribed to the English Alphabet many of the letters are doubled to represent the correct sound that one would make if you were speaking it. Some words to demonstrate this:
shaadi for शादी (Wedding/marriage)
aapke or आपके (Your).
Is this true for all the short vowel sounds? I'm trying to learn Hindi currently from someone and they told me to not worry about learning the script, Devanagari currently and to just transliterate transcribe words for my benefit.
Is there a common way to phonetically transcribe Hindi?
na
andri
contain long vowels while the others are short. For a student, it is better to use a certain phonetic transcription system. – bytebuster Oct 10 '12 at 22:52