Marathi Letter य with a dot

[Antariksh Bothale]

Hi

I found this yesterday on the door of a bank in Nagpur. (Check Attachment)

In Hindi, we represent the uniquely Urdu sounds by putting a dot below the letter.

Eg यक़ीन फ़ासला ख़ुदा ग़ज़ल

I have never seen य dotted in Hindi, however, and I am pretty sure that the Marathi message was a misspelling. I just want to confirm that with people who have learnt Marathi formally.

Also, I have been told that dotted letters (used in Hindi for indicating retroflexing) don't exist in Marathi, so shouldn't it be ढकेला and not ढ़केला?

I am not really running the Hindi translation through a check, because that obviously seems to have been written by a Marathi first language guy. Usually, in notices like these, one does not use the tum verb forms, so it anyhow sounds non-native to me.

[Antariksh Bothale]

^typo.

I meant: shouldn't it be ढकला and not ढ़कला?

2010/11/2 Antariksh Bothale <antariks...@gmail.com>

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Antariksh Bothale
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4th Year, Mechanical Engineering
IIT Bombay

[Sushant Raut]

Nope, never seen anything of this kind.

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[Sham Thanekar]

Me neither. It's definitely ढकला

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Sham Thanekar
Junior Undergraduate
Department of Chemical Engineering
IIT Bombay

[Gopalkrishna Mahale]

Hi,

 

To the best of my knowledge, Marathi letters do not use dots like the Hindi ones you have mentioned.

 

Regards,

Gopal.

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[Miheer Desai]

I think this is due to the fact that the prominent language changes across the border, and this change cannot be discrete.

Miheer Desai
PGP 1
IIM Ahmedabad
B.Tech (Mech engg)
IIT Bombay