What are characteristics of Hindi that are unique or different from English and/or other languages?
Hindi is written in the Devanagari script. Because the Devanagari script contains more letters than the English alphabet, sometimes it is necessary to use two or even three English letters to represent one Devanagari letter. The first eleven letters are all vowels, and then there are forty consonants. All vowels come in two versions in the script: a full vowel and vowel sign. The vowel sign is much simpler than the full vowel. It is used when a vowel follows a consonant. If a vowel follows another vowel, or if a words starts with a vowel, the full vowel is used. There are no pronunciation differences between full vowels and vowel signs, however. Hindi uses the same punctuation marks as English, except for the full stop which is represented by a vertical line. In Hindi, objects have genders. For instance, a book is feminine, a room is masculine, a table is feminine, and a house is masculine. Hindi uses a different word order than English. The main differences are that verbs are placed a
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