Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "ऍ" in Hindi language version.
... In normative varieties of Western Hindi, the first of these has approximately the quality of the vowel in English cat. In Eastern Hindi, however, this vowel may be noticeably diphthongal, sounding like a rapid sequence of an a or ā and an i-like sound ... The vowel अ a frequently receives an irregular pronunciation when adjacent to ह h. In one extremely common variant the अ a preceding the ह h is realized as [ɛ] (the vowel in English get) ...
... OH saha 'to bear, tolerate' > pre-MSH */seh/ > MSH /seh/: OH raha 'be, live' > pre -MSH */rah/ > MSH /reh/ ...
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... The symmetrical ten-vowel system of Hindi and Punjabi (/i, I, e, æ; a, ə; u, U, o, ɔ/ - often represented as /ï, i, e, ai; ā, a; ū, u, o, au/) is considered the normative NIA system ... The diphthongs ai, au coventionally counted as part of the Sanskrit inventory of "vowels" (though not of NIA inventories, being properly relegated to the category of diphthongs), are monophthongized to æ, ɔ in these languages, although in eastern (i.e. Bihari) pronunciations of common Hindi (and in some acrolectal pronunciations of tatsamas) a diphthongal element is retained ...
... I would say helo instead of 'hello' in a typically Kathiawadi accent, provoking giggles ...
... In normative varieties of Western Hindi, the first of these has approximately the quality of the vowel in English cat. In Eastern Hindi, however, this vowel may be noticeably diphthongal, sounding like a rapid sequence of an a or ā and an i-like sound ... The vowel अ a frequently receives an irregular pronunciation when adjacent to ह h. In one extremely common variant the अ a preceding the ह h is realized as [ɛ] (the vowel in English get) ...
... I would say helo instead of 'hello' in a typically Kathiawadi accent, provoking giggles ...
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... The symmetrical ten-vowel system of Hindi and Punjabi (/i, I, e, æ; a, ə; u, U, o, ɔ/ - often represented as /ï, i, e, ai; ā, a; ū, u, o, au/) is considered the normative NIA system ... The diphthongs ai, au coventionally counted as part of the Sanskrit inventory of "vowels" (though not of NIA inventories, being properly relegated to the category of diphthongs), are monophthongized to æ, ɔ in these languages, although in eastern (i.e. Bihari) pronunciations of common Hindi (and in some acrolectal pronunciations of tatsamas) a diphthongal element is retained ...
