Hindi is written in the Devanagari script, which was originally used to write Sanskrit. To represent sounds that are not found in Sanskrit, additional letters have been coined by choosing an existing Devanagari letter representing a similar sound and adding a dot beneath it. For example, the sound 'z' is represented by ज़ , which is a modification of the letter which represents the sound 'j' ([ɟ] in IPA).
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