Devanagari Lesson 1 Review

I hope you enjoyed the reading. You can go back over this lesson later if you need to, but don't study it too closely for now. Here's a quick review:

• Devanagari is phonetic. Each letter in the Hindi script has a unique sound that it makes.
• Letters have no names like English letters. They are called by the sound they make, along with the sound, a as in majority.
• If you are refer to letter by itself, you can add kār (as in the English car) to the end.
• Devanagari is a syllabary. Each letter makes up a syllable of the word.
• Devanagari is written from left to right, with no uppercase or lowercase letters.
• Each letter in the syllabary has a solid horizontal bar on top, which forms a line from which the letters hang when written together.