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The
Consonants
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Our
next set of consonants has a few "new" sounds and need more
attention.
The symbol 
is a new sound.
The consonant 
has no "sound equivalent" in English, but is best approximated by the
sound of the letter Z in G.mp3an word ZUCKER (Sugar), or by
the letters ZZ in the English pronunciation of the Italian word PIZZA.
Its sound is fairly commonly encountered in Kashmiri in such words as:
The consonants 
has the sound equivalent to that of the combination TS in the English
word HUTS.
We have the following Kashmiri
words using this sound:
The symbol C represents the
sound of the letters CH in the English word CHIN. Thus in Kashmiri
it is used in the words shown below:
In Kashmiri the combination CH has a sound
that is best represented by the Hindi pronunciation of the combination CHH
in the word CHHAYA = shadow. Thus some of the Kashmiri words using this
sound are:
The symbols J, j is
pronounced the way one would the letter J in the English word JAM.
The Kashmiri words that employ this
consonant are:
 
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Vowels
