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Apparently there is "no English equivalent" for ɽʱ (ढ़). Surely the "rdh" sound in "birdhouse", "hardhat", etc. is a good approximation? Rajdooot (talk) 02:01, 14 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
A user has recently added a "Devangari representation" to the table, do we really need it? I'm guessing someone down the line will add an "Urdu representation", and then for the vowels as well, and it will just become a giant mess.
Personally, I don't think it should be included, but I didn't want to straight up remove it. نعم البدل (talk) 02:55, 24 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
We have a handful of other keys that also list the letters that are used to represent the respective sounds (e.g. Help:IPA/Korean, Help:IPA/Bulgarian); some keys even entirely rely on presenting letters but not sample words (e.g. Help:IPA/Hebrew, Help:IPA/Georgian, Help:IPA/Albanian). So there is no real standard here. But obviously, listing Devanagari alone is wrong, and adding Urdu letters will render the table impenetrable.
However, our best keys only rely on sample words (e.g. Help:IPA/French, Help:IPA/Japanese, Help:IPA/Tamil), including keys with two scripts (Help:IPA/Serbo-Croatian, Help:IPA/Punjabi). So I agree to remove the Devanagari letter column. We have other pages that cover the important topic of how sounds are represented in the respective script; it's not the purpose of this pronunciation key. –Austronesier (talk) 10:58, 24 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Agreed, I would say the examples suffice! I've gone ahead and removed the 'representations column'. نعم البدل (talk) 03:04, 16 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
