Hindi · Pronunciation Guide

How do you pronounce "लोग" in Hindi?

lohg — a bright l, a motionless long o, and a g that stays voiced to the end.

लोग /loːɡ/

log

A long vowel closed by a stop makes one solid syllable. Since the word is inherently plural, it never lengthens or changes shape for number, so its rhythm is completely stable across sentences.

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Sound it out

lo Tongue tip on the ridge and tongue body low for a clear l, then a long ओ with the lips fixed throughout.

g Unaspirated ग with the voicing continuing through the closure. Adding breathiness would turn it into घ.

Hear it in a sentence

यहाँ बहुत लोग हैं।

Yahaaṁ bahut log haiṁ.

There are a lot of people here.

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"Yahaaṁ bahut log haiṁ" needs no plural marking on log at all, because the word is already plural; only haiṁ's nasalized ending shows number. Yahaaṁ supplies the sentence's other nasal vowel.

Where English speakers slip

English speakers diphthongise the vowel into "logue" and devoice the final g toward k. Freeze the lips through the vowel and keep the voice running until you release. The l also darkens automatically before a back vowel; keep it bright.