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Hindi · Pronunciation Guide
How do you pronounce "दुनिया" in Hindi?
du-ni-YAA — three beats, with a dental d, two short vowels, and a long aa at the end.
duniyaa
The two short vowels are easy to lengthen under English influence, which flattens the word into three equal beats. Keep them brief so the long final aa clearly dominates.
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Hear it in a sentence
मैं पूरी दुनिया घूमना चाहता हूँ।
Maiṁ pooree duniyaa ghoomnaa chaahtaa hooṁ.
I want to travel the whole world.
Listen: मैं पूरी दुनिया घूमना चाहता हूँ।
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"Maiṁ pooree duniyaa ghoomnaa chaahtaa hooṁ" makes pooree feminine to agree with duniyaa, and ghoomnaa opens with the breathy-voiced घ. So the sentence has a feminine agreement chain and a breathy velar within a few syllables of each other.
Where English speakers slip
The initial d comes out alveolar, and the middle vowel gets lengthened toward "nee." Both need attention: tongue tip on the teeth for the d, and a genuinely short lax vowel in the middle. The word is also often heard as two syllables, "dun-yaa," which loses a beat.