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Hindi · Pronunciation Guide
How do you pronounce "शांत" in Hindi?
shaant — a long open aa closed by a nasal and a stop, both made on the teeth.
shaant
One long vowel with a two-consonant coda, and the cluster takes almost no time because the tongue never repositions. All the duration therefore belongs to the vowel.
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Hear it in a sentence
यहाँ बहुत शांति है।
Yahaaṁ bahut shaanti hai.
It is very quiet here.
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"Yahaaṁ bahut shaanti hai" is worth noting because it uses shaanti, the noun, rather than the adjective shaant — Hindi describes a place as having calm rather than being calm. That extra -i also adds a light final syllable the adjective does not have.
Where English speakers slip
English speakers place both consonants of the cluster on the alveolar ridge, as in "shunt," which shifts the whole ending backward. Push the tongue tip forward onto the teeth and release the final stop almost silently, keeping the vowel long.