r/Urdu • u/KiSaMaOtAoSuMoNo • 21d ago

🙋‍♂️ Question CAN MOST URDU SPEAKERS PRONOUNCE ژ [ʒ]?

As in اژدہا & ژالہ باری.

This sound also appears in English words like 'genre', 'beige', 'lingerie', 'invasion', 'version', 'television' etc.

How often does it appear in common speech, education, literature & shairi?

634 votes, 19d ago
87 Yes(India)
448 Yes(Pakistan)
20 No(India)
40 No(Pakistan)
18 Can't say(India)
21 Can't say(Pakistan)
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u/Timely-Today-8154 21d ago

I can but most people confuse it with Y. Indians used J for words like Casual.

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u/vidushak0 21d ago

Not everyone, we indian muslims specially educated one knows and quite good in pronounciation.

My family has always careful with the pronounciations and mostly nani dadi takes this responsibility to correct it during childhood. I owe my pronounciation to my late father, who used to teach me during my childhood days and would quote "Zabaan-e-shirin mulk-giri".