I am afraid
I don’t know the Manak Hindi grammar book you mentioned, but
the most recent (2016)
publication (in Hindi) of the Central Hindi Directorate (of
the Ministry of
Human Resource Development), Standardization of Devanagari
Script and Hindi
Spelling, says on p. 30, par. 3.13 (on the euphonic
glides ya and va) that in
cases where the use of ya is optional (jhukāye or jhukāe) the
spelling
with the glide is to be avoided. The same rule was formulated
in earlier
publications of the Directorate, already in the sixties of the
previous
century.
It is not a spelling
reform, but rather an attempt from the side
of the government to standardize the spelling of Hindi.
The booklet
can be downloaded for free at:
http://hindinideshalaya.nic.in/hindi/schemeofpublication/FinalDevnagriLipi_05-07-2016.pdf
Yours,
Dick Plukker
Dear list members,
I've been asked a question about a Hindi spelling change and I'm not a Hindi speaker so any help would be greatly appreciated.
I've been told that the Manaki Hindi grammar book rule 2.13.1 says to change the spelling of āye to āe in Hindi words.
And the example I've been given is jhukāye should be spelled jhukhāe
I've been asked what this is about.
Is this a spelling modernization or some kind of official spelling reform?
Or two different types of Hindi spelling like British english and Amarican english?
Are there other spelling changes prescribed in the Manaki Hindi grammar book?
What is the Manaki Hindi grammar? Does it have some kind of special status.
Thanks,
Harry Spier
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