Over the course of the past few weeks, I've been working with Atul to brush up on my written Hindi. The grammatical and semantic rules of Hindi differ significantly from English.
Hindi is written using the Devnagri script, which employs around 50 characters. A word is formed by a bar across a string of letters and the way a word is spoken aligns very reliably with the way that it is written. There are also letters that encapsulate sounds that do not exist in English and other languages. There are five different ways of writing the letter 't' for example.
There is also a difference in the ordering of words in sentences. In English, one follows the Subject-Verb-Object order, whereas in Hindi one follows Subject-Object-Verb order. What one calls prepositions in English also follow the object that they qualify.
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