View Message

In Sanskrit rAdhA (prosperity, from the root rAdh, to succeed) is pronounced as two clear syllables rA foolowed by dhA. The A is closest approximated by the English a in car. The r is like in English, not like in French. The dh is a dental voiced aspirate, a sound that does not exist, to my knowledge, in English: it is like the th in the but with aspiration. Try speaking the th sound of the with the h sound of he together to make the th-h into one consonant, and that is it.
Modern Indoaryan languages are mostly unstressed.

---

I do not know of any Indian language where the pronounciation differs substantially from the one I tried to describe above.