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 | Besides, Hindi is written in Devnagari script, while Urdu is written in a modified form of the Arabic script. |
| The transliteration shows each consonant to end in 'a' : this is because in the absence of any other vowel sign, the Devnagari consonant is followed by an inherent 'a' sound (pronounced like the 'a' in 'majority'), unless it occurs at the end of the word, when it is not pronouced, or is silenced. |
| Thus each Devnagari character represents a syllable, and the totality is strictly speaking a 'syllabary' rather than an 'alphabet'. |
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