جی ہاںjī hāṉ: yes (polite)nose-hum, tongue never touches
نہیںnahīṉ: nonuh-hee + nasal hum
میںmaiṉ: I / me'meh' through the nose
ساسsās: mother-in-law
سانسsāṉs: breath
ہاںhāṉ: yesthe most-used nasal in the language
نہیںnahīṉ: noplain n first, nasal at the end
یہاںyahāṉ: hereya-haaṉ
کہاںkahāṉ: whereits partner in every question
دانتdāṉt: toothnasal in the middle, not at the end
Good to know
✨ The dotless nūn (ں) means: send the vowel through your nose and never let the tongue touch. Like the French “bon”, there's no real 'n' at the end, just a hum.
✨ It's everywhere in the words you already know: hāṉ (yes), nahīṉ (no), maiṉ (I). Say “huh” while humming through your nose, that's hāṉ.
✨ The dotless ں only turns up at the end of a syllable. In the middle of a word the same nasal hum is written with an ordinary ن, so dāṉt (tooth) hides it in plain sight and you simply have to know it is there.
✨ French, Portuguese and Punjabi nasalise vowels exactly this way, so anyone who can say 'bon' already owns the muscle. English dropped the habit centuries ago and now only hums through the nose by accident.
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