This difference in pronunciation has always intrigued me. I am a Malayalee and we have always pronounced it as a combination of ज+ञ in Malayalam. Thanks a lot for the clarification 🙏
Malayalam is the only living language that captures and keeps alive the unique sounds of both the ancient languages, Sanskrit and Tamizh 🙏🏽🙏🏽💕💕 Tamizhans themselves have largely quit using zha. Nowadays, colloquial use even pronounces ண (ण) as ன(न), ள(ळ) as ல(ल). It is sad that this gang is simultaneously vilifying Hindi while actively killing Tamizh. 😢
@@user-kq3fh8oy3k If it was written as joined characters rather than a ligature (i.e., ज्ञ instead of ज्ञ), everyone would pronounce it correctly. Devanagari is not like the Latin script where different languages have different pronunciations of the letters; it's a phonetic-based script. Saying क is pronounced as "ma" in Marathi because it's "their pronunciation" doesn't fly, so this isn't correct in the same way. It is just taught incorrectly because someone somewhere misheard it and has been teaching this incorrect pronunciation, which has now become widespread. Better education is all that's needed to fix this.
You know what is wonderful about sanskrit!!!! Just found out at 1:53 that if u start at kaa khaa gaa in line 1 The whole row is fixed at a particular place in mouth. The second row of cha chha ja...is in between the teeth.. Then move to ta tha daa...it is fixed in one place with tongue tip striking the top of mouth and like wise. Wow...what a wonderful symmetry this language has in its arrangements of alphabets...the varnmala Naman! To my ancestors for this dev vaani!
I watched the video multiple times to understand the difference in pronunciation but, 'gna' and 'jna' sounded exactly the same when you uttered the ज्ञ words.
In Kannada we were taught to pronounce it exactly the way you mentioned it ... And the mismatch is something I have known other native speakers of Kannada notice very clearly...
Namaste! I have struggled with this, and even been misinformed by my Sanskrit teacher, a professor at a North Indian university. Your explanation, I feel certain, finally puts to rest the case for the correct pronunciation. Words are not enough: Namaste...
ಬಹವಃ ಧನ್ಯವಾದಾನಿ😊 My daughter's name s 'Aajna' and found difficult to explain why it is pronounce the way it is pronounced to everyone. Now you eased it once and for all. Thank you 👍
@Cr00kedKnight Vijnana, Jnana, Prajnanam and all such words are written the same. It's probably just you that I know write it jnya 😀 Pat your back and keep your 'jnyana' with yourself.
Thank you so much for this. I've been reading the Bhagavad-Gita for some time now, and always faced problem pronouncing this letter as I'm used to Hindi pronunciation. In Bengali , I don't face this problem because it's different. But honestly, your videos help a beginner like me so much. Keep up the good work! May Saraswati Maa always bless you.🙏
I always wondered why my name is not spelled as Prajna. I have a story about when I changed the spelling of my name in my school notebooks from Pragya to Prajna (was in Elementary Grade). Got scolded because it was not the spelling in the official ID 😂 Thanks for letting me know my name's correct pronunciation. I might have to spend months practicing how to pronounce my own name!
My native language is portuguese and the sound of nha is very similar. Nasal sound (although I will hear with headphones because I can't spot the difference between prajna and pragnya)
Exatamente, Bruno! Mas fiquei receoso de fazer essa equivalência entre jna e nha e deixar passar despercebida alguma sutileza fonética. Conte se você acha que realmente é um "nha" 😉
That's because the Portuguese "nha" is the exact same sound as "ña" in "jña": it's the voiced palatal nasal (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voiced_palatal_nasal )
@@NaveGristle o som representado por 'nha' é parecido, mas o som representado por 'jña' fica um pouco mais para trás, com a língua tocando mais o palato mole e a lateral da boca. No caso do nha, o corpo da língua toca o céu da boca. Essa é a diferença. Namaste
This is a wonderful video on how to pronounce the letter in question. I am of Telugu background and learning Durga Saptashati with Tamil students. we always differed when it comes to gnanam /jnanam/gyanam. This clears my doubts. Thank you so much.
@@abcxyz8230 also ऋ and रि difference is not clear. रिद्धि ऋद्धि difference is not clear. ऋषि रिषी difference is more complicated, since noone truly knows about 'ष'.
Yes... it is always better to hear and learn sanskrit... To get correct meaning, correct pronunciation is important . And effects of each word may differ according to pronunciation , especially in "Mantras ". 🙏🕉️🙏
In Malayalam we pronounce exactly like you said in fact it’s written exactly as half of two words as stated by you ... almost all words in Malayalam is spoken almost as in original sanskrit and many who really don’t understand especially in north India argues it incorrectly like yajna as yagya 😇...
Actually many of the South Indian languages have a close connection with Sanskrit. But in Gujarati language also, the word is pronounced as "nya" and not "gya". So there is no point of blaming the North Indians. But yes, in languages like Hindi and Bengali,it is pronounced incorrectly
@@ishanipaul8249 Actually, it is the north indian languages that have more connection with Sanskrit than the South Indian languages, because north Indian languages and Sanskrit belong to the same language family where as the south indian languages belong to a different language family. The issue with 'nga' is that while the modern north indian languages were formed after considerable changes through centuries of evolution and thus changing the original sanskrit pronunciation, while in the southern languages, sanskrit words were directly accommodated, and that too only around the late part of the first millennium AD. So, South Indian languages have been able to retain the original pronunciation of the sanskrit loan words.
I was always confused about the pronunciation of my name...though you didn't refer to bengali pronunciation where they say it progga..Anyways I got to know right pronunciation of my name thanks to you. I always wanted to know what is the correct way of pronouncing my name.But now I can't change the spelling of my name and got used to hearing my name in this (wrong) way. I am too old to do that. I admire your knowledge, how in a very short video you are able to dispel the ignorance. My profuse thanks
Thanks for this video. I was pronouncing this letter combination like ज्ञ्य. Now I understood the subtle difference between ज्ञ and ज्ञ्य. I got it clear.
Thnx for teaching the correct pronunciation all these years people used to call me with so many variety of pronunciation like prajna, pregna, pragga, pragya and so many more
Sir, I'm new to sanskrit, but know Hindi. The consonant table showed here looks exactly like that of hindi.. Thank you for you cleared a long time doubt. Also we malayalis spell it the same way as in sanskrit, "jna"
@@nikhiltiwari6923 actually it is not, Malayalam is a Dravidian language, and Hindi is an Indo-Aryan language descended from Sanskrit by way of Prakrit.
Namaste, l really focused on your teachings of Sanskrit in simple terms of where I was hard to read some words in Slokas. But because of your clear teachings I am now feeling better to read them thank you Guruji for helping all of us to improve the correct pronunciation 🙏
Coincidently just an hour back I was discussing the same with my aunt about how to correctly pronounce "ज्ञ". Now when I opened youtube this was the first suggested video. Is google spying on my thoughts? Yes we north Indians in general pronounce it incorrectly. Infact I saw only language scholars and saints speaking it correctly. Thank You.
So freaking tightly rational! And complete with the rationale as well as the mispronunciations in the three modern Indian languages. I wish he would make a clip on the correct pronunciation of words like YOGA which typically are mispronounced with a "silent" second consonant in modern Indian languages (yoag) or alternatively almost universally mispronounced as yogA (i. e., the G pronounced with the sound of the second vowel in the series of Indian vowels instead of with the first vowel (equivalent of "schwa")).
Uday ji you pronounced my named so correctly at the first go... In today's live chat you mentioned about jna (ଜ୍ଞ in odia) and your this video . Hence came to watch this video of yours.. 😇😇.. Keep spreading your vast knowledge in sanskrit. 😇🙏🏻 Thank you again
I am one of the enthusiastic person who want to badly learn the language and had various ways to learn but the way you teach Sir is really nice please make more videos please 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
Marathi : Dny Today some people are pronouncing it "Jna" ञ : How it is pronounced?? Uday ji very very thankful for this. For years I have been wondering about 🙏😍
Uday ji, Also make a video on. " ळ " Because I see that word only in Marathi I guess.. The Hindi people pronounce it as "ल" But its not that.. We say lotus as कमळ Baby as बाळ Time as काळ ... Thank you 🤗🙏
Now it's clear. In malayalam it is spoken correctly but when i hear some videos about Sanskrit in hindi channels they are pronouncing it wrongly so i got confused whether my mother tongue malayalam is correct or hindi?now i understand malayalam is far more closer to Sanskrit than hindi in pronunciation as well as vocabulary 😍😍😍😍thanks anna
Struggling with this pronounciation for decades! I still can not get it right as the anunasik ञ and ङ have been mystery sounds. Dhanyavad to you that I have got a far better idea about human capacity of creating sounds and their expression in Sanskrit with such amazing detail. No wonder it is arguably a perfect language.
I’m a kannadati, and in kannada we pronounce it the correct way. One of the uniqueness of kannada is that lots of Dravidian vocabulary and Sanskrit vocabulary co-exist as Samana arthakas - words with equivalent meaning. So we can pronounce many sounds flawlessly, for Eg we people pronounce the la/ಲ/ल and the La/ಳ (deeper sound) distinctly, the र/ರ and the ऋ/ಋ also the Ka and Ga are pronounced distinctly.
@@JustMe54328 u will get it in sanskrit devanagari or marathi devanagari just press 1/3 button there if ur using samsung keyboard go to 3rd button u will get it there
I listened like 20 times and cannot hear the difference between 'pradnyā' and 'prajnā'. Should I change me ears? Cant figure out if I am saying it right or not. Great video! Lots of work ahead!
Everything going good. You are giving a good amount of sanskrit knowledge which is most essential these days. But we can't define pronunciation because pronunciation is defined based on different shiksha shastras. So there are many ways of pronunciation. Pronunciation based on shiksha shastras is accepted but meaning never changes Hope you may see my comment and reply
Sir you make my day you are my ideal person I listened somany video Ganesh atherwoe which lam beej mantra your video but not another video I believe you only why another group not mention please clarify if possible
Thank you thank you thank you sooooo much... U have cleared the confusion so nicely.. very neat n clear explaination... I was fed up by explaining how to pronounce my name correctly...yet my friends from different regions keep on arguing.. Thank u ones again...
Well at least you spell it correctly; that's a good start. Unlike a lot of Hindi/Marathi names which have gya (e.g., Pragya Thakur) or dnya (e.g., "Pradnya").
I read 'Loom of Time' by Kalidasa which comprises of two poems and one play, the play being 'Abhijnanasakuntalam'. And the spelling bothered me so much. I tried talking to some people who study the play as a part of their course, but they had nothing to say about it. This was enlightening. Thank you :)
This is something I have always got confused about -- now i think how I learned it in Malayalam is the right and closest to what it is: Jna. Thank you for this explanation.
Thankyou thankyou thankyou so much for your this pronunciation 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽 Everytime I am confused about this ज्ञ Please clear 1 small doubt that we pronounce it as gnya or there is slight sound of g(ज) also🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽
Thank you very much as my elder sons name is Arunabh Prajnan many academicians including his class teacher told me about his name as wrong but I was sure about its correctness and now I'm assured that I was and am correct.
Please write a Book of Translation. Or make it Application to use all Correct indian(Sanskrit/Samskruta) words "English Spelling for Sanskrit words". You guys are Amazing.
When you started pronouncing correctly, I heard the '-gna' sound, not '-jna' sound what you said before. I don't understand. Please try in slow motion too. And I don't get how the said compound consonant and the 10th consonant differs in pronunciation. Also try to give a 'sagittal view of the mouth' (maybe there is a more appropriate term) that is commonly seen to illustrate pronunciation technique.
It might sound like that because you have to stop the airflow when you're pronouncing the consonant (because of the voiced stop ज). But all you have to do is isolate the sound (voiced palatal stop) without the vowel (ज्) and then do the same with the nasal sound (voiced palatal nasal) without the vowel (ञ्) and then say them together without a gap.
what I *don't* understand is how such a great explanation cannot be backed up with more language-based videos. THEN the "religious material. so much opportunity for helping people to learn Sanskrit, and yet...
Here in Ceylon (Sri Lanka) the correct pronunciation of Sanskrit language is well preserved in comparison to India. Main reason is that Sanskrit and Paali languages are learnt as holy and classical languages. Most of the Buddhist monks learn them well and pass the tradition to the next generation accurately. Paali is used in Buddhist religious practices but Sanskrit is used only for learning purposes. So the space for distorting the language is very low as it is in the hand of scholars. The letter ज्ञ is found in Sinhala Alphabet too as ඥ. It is formed as ජ + ඤ = ඥ (ज + ञ = ज्ञ) and pronounced exactly as you mentioned. The transliteration and IPA symbols used here are jña and /d͡ʒɲa/ respectively.
Ur wrong bro south indian dravidian languages pronounce it sanskrit same like how it's pronounced in sanskrit u hear kannada and telugu speaking u will get to know about it.
I pronounce this letter correctly brother. In Telugu lipi also this letter is there like Sanskrit. I learnt Lalita sahasranaamam from my mother at the age of 4-5. I think before learning Telugu, I have learnt Sanskrit Slokas . At the age of 6 I read, news papers and every academic Telugu books I saw which is not related me also . For that continuous reading only I got perfection in Telugu reading and writing. In Telugu states almost 99 percentage pronounce this letter so perfect brother.
This difference in pronunciation has always intrigued me. I am a Malayalee and we have always pronounced it as a combination of ज+ञ in Malayalam. Thanks a lot for the clarification 🙏
ഞാൻ വീജ്ഞാനം (ञान् , विञ्ञानम्) etc.
Like this. ञ sound Same in Tamizh.😁😁👆🇮🇳🔥😎🙏🏻
that's exactly how it was mentioned in the book I am using to leanr Sanskrit, Sanskrit Swayam Shikshak.
@@sidharthiyer8042 ज्ञान विज्ञान
Try typing the letter ज् + ञ and the auto spell will arrive at ज्ञ itself
Malayalam is the only living language that captures and keeps alive the unique sounds of both the ancient languages, Sanskrit and Tamizh 🙏🏽🙏🏽💕💕
Tamizhans themselves have largely quit using zha. Nowadays, colloquial use even pronounces ண (ण) as ன(न), ள(ळ) as ல(ल).
It is sad that this gang is simultaneously vilifying Hindi while actively killing Tamizh. 😢
Malayalam pronunciation is the correct one.
Finally I understand why so many people pronounce yajña as "yagya".
Original is yadna , we Marathis pronounced
Yes, they pronounce it wrong.
@@piyushschannel4141 No.
@@tstcikhthys not wrong
It's there pronunciation
In Marathi
@@user-kq3fh8oy3k If it was written as joined characters rather than a ligature (i.e., ज्ञ instead of ज्ञ), everyone would pronounce it correctly. Devanagari is not like the Latin script where different languages have different pronunciations of the letters; it's a phonetic-based script. Saying क is pronounced as "ma" in Marathi because it's "their pronunciation" doesn't fly, so this isn't correct in the same way. It is just taught incorrectly because someone somewhere misheard it and has been teaching this incorrect pronunciation, which has now become widespread. Better education is all that's needed to fix this.
You know what is wonderful about sanskrit!!!!
Just found out at 1:53 that if u start at kaa khaa gaa in line 1
The whole row is fixed at a particular place in mouth.
The second row of cha chha ja...is in between the teeth..
Then move to ta tha daa...it is fixed in one place with tongue tip striking the top of mouth and like wise.
Wow...what a wonderful symmetry this language has in its arrangements of alphabets...the varnmala
Naman! To my ancestors for this dev vaani!
This arrangement of the Devnagari alphabet is usually taught when Devnagari script is being taught. And all those sounds are named.
very well said
That is devanagari script. Nothing to do with sanskrit.
And most abugidas are arranged like that. So nothing special with devanagari either.
I watched the video multiple times to understand the difference in pronunciation but, 'gna' and 'jna' sounded exactly the same when you uttered the ज्ञ words.
exactly what I thought too, other videos pronounced the "j" sound more prominently along with the "n" sound
In Kannada we were taught to pronounce it exactly the way you mentioned it ...
And the mismatch is something I have known other native speakers of Kannada notice very clearly...
My mother tongue is Kannada but Sanskrit is Mother Of All Languages!
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ನಮಸ್ಕಾರಗಳು 🙏
@@evenkatng ಎಲ್ಲಾ ಭಾಷೆಗಳಿಗು ಅಲ್ಲ ಕೆಲವು ಭಾಷೆಗಳಿಗೆ ಮಾತ್ರ
*"ಪ್ರಜ್ಞೆಯೇ ಜ್ಞಾನ Prajñeyē jñāna"*
Consciousness is knowledge
I wanted an explanation on this letter for so many years. And nobody knew how to correctly pronounce it. Thanks Sanskrit channel.
@Cr00kedKnight I have always heard everyone pronouncing it as gya as in Gyani or Gyan.
finally, a totally logical and accurate explanation of ज्ञ!
Namaste! I have struggled with this, and even been misinformed by my Sanskrit teacher, a professor at a North Indian university. Your explanation, I feel certain, finally puts to rest the case for the correct pronunciation. Words are not enough: Namaste...
Wow… I guess even age 62 isn’t too late to learn it right. Thank you young man 😊
चिरंजीवी भव 🙌🏾❤
Had been waiting for this since long! Thanks
@The Sanskrit Channel, Also please make a video on the pronunciation and use of "ऋ", as in ऋषि, कृष्णा, नृत्य etc. Thanks.
Need to know more words like this please
So this is the reason we read about 'Yajnas' in our history books. Good going bud
Thanks a lot 🙏
ಬಹವಃ ಧನ್ಯವಾದಾನಿ😊
My daughter's name s 'Aajna' and found difficult to explain why it is pronounce the way it is pronounced to everyone. Now you eased it once and for all. Thank you 👍
@Cr00kedKnight I would always prefer Aajna over Aajnya which would be ಆಜ್ನ್ಯಾ which is again not right and nowhere close.
@Cr00kedKnight Vijnana, Jnana, Prajnanam and all such words are written the same. It's probably just you that I know write it jnya 😀 Pat your back and keep your 'jnyana' with yourself.
Thank you so much for this. I've been reading the Bhagavad-Gita for some time now, and always faced problem pronouncing this letter as I'm used to Hindi pronunciation. In Bengali , I don't face this problem because it's different. But honestly, your videos help a beginner like me so much. Keep up the good work! May Saraswati Maa always bless you.🙏
I always wondered why my name is not spelled as Prajna.
I have a story about when I changed the spelling of my name in my school notebooks from Pragya to Prajna (was in Elementary Grade). Got scolded because it was not the spelling in the official ID 😂
Thanks for letting me know my name's correct pronunciation. I might have to spend months practicing how to pronounce my own name!
Hi Prajna Tiwary 😅😅.. happy for you..
प्र+ज्+ञा = प्रज्ञा देवनागरी में
pra+j+ñā = Prajñā in IAST Saṃskṛta
@@prajnadeepkarna1998 no it's prajñā
My native language is portuguese and the sound of nha is very similar. Nasal sound (although I will hear with headphones because I can't spot the difference between prajna and pragnya)
Exatamente, Bruno! Mas fiquei receoso de fazer essa equivalência entre jna e nha e deixar passar despercebida alguma sutileza fonética. Conte se você acha que realmente é um "nha" 😉
But even in portuguese, Brazilian dialect is very much different than European one.
That's because the Portuguese "nha" is the exact same sound as "ña" in "jña": it's the voiced palatal nasal (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voiced_palatal_nasal )
@yitzhak rafaeli shekkelsteingoldmanberg wow that sounds pretty racist. Portuguese is a Romance language from Europe (Portugal, duh)
@@NaveGristle o som representado por 'nha' é parecido, mas o som representado por 'jña' fica um pouco mais para trás, com a língua tocando mais o palato mole e a lateral da boca. No caso do nha, o corpo da língua toca o céu da boca. Essa é a diferença. Namaste
This is a wonderful video on how to pronounce the letter in question. I am of Telugu background and learning Durga Saptashati with Tamil students. we always differed when it comes to gnanam /jnanam/gyanam. This clears my doubts. Thank you so much.
we have letter nj [read: ny] in Croatian language
@Darkhorse ć is soft "ch" ... like "Chandra". We also have č that is hard "ch" like "Chakra".
@Darkhorse don't worry ...there are people in Eastern parts od Croatia that don't understand difference between ć and č also :))
also when Latin transferred its words into English langues thousand years ago, they made mistake ... Jupiter is actually Yupiter.
@Darkhorse you can use Slavic langues with Latin script. Use our special letters.
@Darkhorse if you wish you can study this link www.sutrajournal.com/sanskrit-in-croatia-from-sarasvati-to-hrvati-by-james-cooper
उत्तम विवरण🙏🙏🙏
इसी तरह कृपया उष्म 'श'कार और मूर्धन्य 'ष'कार के उच्चारण में अंतर स्पष्ट करें ।
साथ ही 'ऋ', 'लृ' और 'ळ' का भी उच्चारण स्पष्ट करें ।
th-cam.com/video/dq5VdY69RMc/w-d-xo.html at 4:10 for श and ष
th-cam.com/video/a4rz9NbMq0M/w-d-xo.html at 3:11 for ऋ, ळ and ऌ
@@abcxyz8230 धन्यवाद🙏🏻
ल व ड़ की संयुक्तध्वनि ।।
@@abcxyz8230
श and ष difference is not clear.
@@abcxyz8230
also ऋ and रि difference is not clear.
रिद्धि ऋद्धि difference is not clear.
ऋषि रिषी difference is more complicated, since noone truly knows about 'ष'.
Your channel is a blessing for all Self Sanskrit learners🙏🙏
Yes
So clear, so scholarly and masterful an explanation.
Cannot thank you enough.
Wonderful work you are doing. ❤💜😌💎🕉️
Yes... it is always better to hear and learn sanskrit... To get correct meaning, correct pronunciation is important . And effects of each word may differ according to pronunciation , especially in "Mantras ". 🙏🕉️🙏
In Malayalam we pronounce exactly like you said in fact it’s written exactly as half of two words as stated by you ... almost all words in Malayalam is spoken almost as in original sanskrit and many who really don’t understand especially in north India argues it incorrectly like yajna as yagya 😇...
Actually many of the South Indian languages have a close connection with Sanskrit. But in Gujarati language also, the word is pronounced as "nya" and not "gya". So there is no point of blaming the North Indians. But yes, in languages like Hindi and Bengali,it is pronounced incorrectly
Ishani paul ঈশানী পাল m not blaming anyone I just said my experience that few do this becoz of misunderstanding
@@maxinjames that's Ok 😊. No problem
@@ishanipaul8249
Actually, it is the north indian languages that have more connection with Sanskrit than the South Indian languages, because north Indian languages and Sanskrit belong to the same language family where as the south indian languages belong to a different language family. The issue with 'nga' is that while the modern north indian languages were formed after considerable changes through centuries of evolution and thus changing the original sanskrit pronunciation, while in the southern languages, sanskrit words were directly accommodated, and that too only around the late part of the first millennium AD. So, South Indian languages have been able to retain the original pronunciation of the sanskrit loan words.
I know next to nothing about the Sanskrit language but I was blown away by the column system of its letters! Amazing stuff!
Thanks!
Dhanyavaad for this clarification. I am reciting some slokas and this is very useful to get the correct pronunciation.
Thank you for making me understand the correct pronunciation. Another achievement in Sanskrit.
I was always confused about the pronunciation of my name...though you didn't refer to bengali pronunciation where they say it progga..Anyways I got to know right pronunciation of my name thanks to you. I always wanted to know what is the correct way of pronouncing my name.But now I can't change the spelling of my name and got used to hearing my name in this (wrong) way. I am too old to do that. I admire your knowledge, how in a very short video you are able to dispel the ignorance. My profuse thanks
yes! another example is Manogna!
My name is Pragya
Thanks for this video. I was pronouncing this letter combination like ज्ञ्य. Now I understood the subtle difference between ज्ञ and ज्ञ्य. I got it clear.
Such a beautiful way of explaining! Truly blessed to have come across The Sanskrit Channel. Thank you!
Man, this is hard, but certainly the most comprehensive explanation I have ever encountered!
This is so needful explanation. I need to share it across all. Thankyou so much. Namaskaram
Thnx for teaching the correct pronunciation all these years people used to call me with so many variety of pronunciation like prajna, pregna, pragga, pragya and so many more
You correctly pronounced 'jana. But still haven't corrected sanskrit as "samskrit". That's just amazing
Well it's technically Samskrt (संसृत), not "Samskrit" (संसृित), but yes.
I was always searching for the correct pronunciation. Thanks a lot for teaching so elaborately the right pronunciation.
Sir, I'm new to sanskrit, but know Hindi. The consonant table showed here looks exactly like that of hindi..
Thank you for you cleared a long time doubt. Also we malayalis spell it the same way as in sanskrit, "jna"
Malayalam is more closer to Sanskrit then Hindi.
The script is Devnagari script and Sanskrit, Hindi and Marathi use it with minor variations.
@@nikhiltiwari6923 * than
@@nikhiltiwari6923 actually it is not, Malayalam is a Dravidian language, and Hindi is an Indo-Aryan language descended from Sanskrit by way of Prakrit.
ये चेनल आपने अंग्रेजी में क्यों बनाया है हिन्दी में क्यों नहीं ? विडिओ निश्चित अच्छा, बहुत अच्छा है
Heads off to ur efforts thank uh so much for such beautiful and depth learning 🙏 may ur attempts bring out beautiful results Radhe krishna
Namaste, l really focused on your teachings of Sanskrit in simple terms of where I was hard to read some words in Slokas. But because of your clear teachings I am now feeling better to read them thank you Guruji for helping all of us to improve the correct pronunciation 🙏
Coincidently just an hour back I was discussing the same with my aunt about how to correctly pronounce "ज्ञ". Now when I opened youtube this was the first suggested video. Is google spying on my thoughts?
Yes we north Indians in general pronounce it incorrectly. Infact I saw only language scholars and saints speaking it correctly. Thank You.
It raised more questions than answering the existing ones
बहुत ही शास्त्रीय पद्धति से समझाया है !!💯👌👍
So freaking tightly rational! And complete with the rationale as well as the mispronunciations in the three modern Indian languages.
I wish he would make a clip on the correct pronunciation of words like YOGA which typically are mispronounced with a "silent" second consonant in modern Indian languages (yoag) or alternatively almost universally mispronounced as yogA (i. e., the G pronounced with the sound of the second vowel in the series of Indian vowels instead of with the first vowel (equivalent of "schwa")).
Uday ji you pronounced my named so correctly at the first go... In today's live chat you mentioned about jna (ଜ୍ଞ in odia) and your this video . Hence came to watch this video of yours.. 😇😇.. Keep spreading your vast knowledge in sanskrit. 😇🙏🏻
Thank you again
🙏I was wondering who could clarify my doubt regarding pronunciation of 'jna'. Thankyou for the video🙏
I am one of the enthusiastic person who want to badly learn the language and had various ways to learn but the way you teach Sir is really nice please make more videos please 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
Marathi : Dny
Today some people are pronouncing it "Jna"
ञ : How it is pronounced??
Uday ji very very thankful for this. For years I have been wondering about 🙏😍
ज्ञ ಜ್ಞ Jña
ङ ಙ Ṅa
ञ ಞ Ña
ळ ಳ Ḷa
*"ಪ್ರಜ್ಞೆಯೇ ಜ್ಞಾನ" Prajñeyē jñāna*
Consciousness is knowledge
Uday ji, Also make a video on. " ळ "
Because I see that word only in Marathi I guess.. The Hindi people pronounce it as "ल"
But its not that.. We say lotus as कमळ
Baby as बाळ Time as काळ ...
Thank you 🤗🙏
@@agastya8999 like Marathi in Kannada also number of swarakshara and vyajanakshara is same.
@@agastya8999 This phoneme is also present in Odia and Tamil.
@@agastya8999 मराठी, तामिळ,मल्याळम, कन्नड
I think you are a great guide, who is to play a great role in the upliftment of our souls through the things you teach us! Thank you, I love you!
Having learnt Kannada since my birth and that Sanskrit is its mother, this feels like deja vu :)
Isn't kannada dravidian language family?
Wow! Like me who is very confused always abt the pronunciation...its very helpful...pls keep putting vedios....Thank you soo much
My name is Ragnesh , today I got to know the exact pronunciation. Thank you.
Thank you soo much..
It is very important to pronounce mantras correctly..
Finally I have a video which i would share to someone who question about my pronunciation, putting an end to unnecessary arguments 🙂✅
अब बहुत अच्छा कार्य कर रहे हैं।
Now it's clear. In malayalam it is spoken correctly but when i hear some videos about Sanskrit in hindi channels they are pronouncing it wrongly so i got confused whether my mother tongue malayalam is correct or hindi?now i understand malayalam is far more closer to Sanskrit than hindi in pronunciation as well as vocabulary 😍😍😍😍thanks anna
hari om!!! you changed the way of learning
Struggling with this pronounciation for decades! I still can not get it right as the anunasik ञ and ङ have been mystery sounds. Dhanyavad to you that I have got a far better idea about human capacity of creating sounds and their expression in Sanskrit with such amazing detail. No wonder it is arguably a perfect language.
I’m a kannadati, and in kannada we pronounce it the correct way.
One of the uniqueness of kannada is that lots of Dravidian vocabulary and Sanskrit vocabulary co-exist as Samana arthakas - words with equivalent meaning.
So we can pronounce many sounds flawlessly, for Eg we people pronounce the la/ಲ/ल and the La/ಳ (deeper sound) distinctly, the र/ರ and the ऋ/ಋ also the Ka and Ga are pronounced distinctly.
For ಳ it's devanagari letter is this ळ
@@soumyadipM6627 yes, I didn’t find it on my keyboard.
@@JustMe54328 u will get it in sanskrit devanagari or marathi devanagari just press 1/3 button there if ur using samsung keyboard go to 3rd button u will get it there
@@soumyadipM6627 oh ok thanks
I listened like 20 times and cannot hear the difference between 'pradnyā' and 'prajnā'. Should I change me ears? Cant figure out if I am saying it right or not. Great video! Lots of work ahead!
Woww...I started reading scriptures very recently and this has been my question. Great content ❤️❤️🙏
U are great all I'm sad about that i couldn't support ypur work as i'm just a student studying in school
Everything going good. You are giving a good amount of sanskrit knowledge which is most essential these days. But we can't define pronunciation because pronunciation is defined based on different shiksha shastras. So there are many ways of pronunciation. Pronunciation based on shiksha shastras is accepted but meaning never changes
Hope you may see my comment and reply
Harekrishna .... really helping topic .. Thankyou
Great, I looking exactly for this clarification on this letter. Koti dhanyavathagalu..
Sir you make my day you are my ideal person I listened somany video Ganesh atherwoe which lam beej mantra your video but not another video I believe you only why another group not mention please clarify if possible
A very clear explanation of a beautiful, intelligent language.
Thank you thank you thank you sooooo much... U have cleared the confusion so nicely.. very neat n clear explaination...
I was fed up by explaining how to pronounce my name correctly...yet my friends from different regions keep on arguing..
Thank u ones again...
Well at least you spell it correctly; that's a good start. Unlike a lot of Hindi/Marathi names which have gya (e.g., Pragya Thakur) or dnya (e.g., "Pradnya").
I read 'Loom of Time' by Kalidasa which comprises of two poems and one play, the play being 'Abhijnanasakuntalam'. And the spelling bothered me so much. I tried talking to some people who study the play as a part of their course, but they had nothing to say about it. This was enlightening. Thank you :)
प्रणाम दीदी
हम दोनों की एक ही शब्द है अतिम नाम में
@@sumitvasishtha9095 🙏
NAMASKARAM! PLEASE START THE SERIES OF TEACHING SANSKRIT!
This is something I have always got confused about -- now i think how I learned it in Malayalam is the right and closest to what it is: Jna.
Thank you for this explanation.
Tamizh too😎😁🇮🇳🔥🙏🏻
Your voice is ear-soothing, pleasing and ultra-clear. Is it God-given or you have learnt it?
आपका बहुत बहुत धन्यवाद उदय जी।
Good work great work, I appreciate vedic knowledge. I wish whole world know this, sanskrit
खूप धन्यवाद बरोबर उच्चारण सांगितल्याबद्दल.
Hare Krishna 💕
Thank you so much Sir!
I never thought that I would ever be able to understand these things, once again thank you so much 💕
Hari bol❤
This is the type of content I always wished to watch. Thanks for the information.
I was waiting and wanting to know more.....from a long time
As a Kannadiga, I was taught this correctly as Yaj-nya...Praj-nya...etc
Thanks for sharing Sir and team 😊
*ಪ್ರಜ್ಞೆಯೇ ಜ್ಞಾನ*
*Prajñeyē jñāna*
Consciousness is knowledge
Thankyou thankyou thankyou so much for your this pronunciation 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽
Everytime I am confused about this ज्ञ
Please clear 1 small doubt that we pronounce it as gnya or there is slight sound of g(ज) also🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽
Today i learened something new.
Each time i watch a video i unlearn and relearn something.🙏👍
Thank you very much as my elder sons name is Arunabh Prajnan many academicians including his class teacher told me about his name as wrong but I was sure about its correctness and now I'm assured that I was and am correct.
The explanation is clear and can be understood easily.
Please write a Book of Translation. Or make it Application to use all Correct indian(Sanskrit/Samskruta) words
"English Spelling for Sanskrit words".
You guys are Amazing.
Please do this series continue... For learning Sanskrit
Thanks for clear understanding of pronunciation
🙏🕉️🙏... Great full to you... You are doing a wonderful job.. 🙏🕉️🙏
When you started pronouncing correctly, I heard the '-gna' sound, not '-jna' sound what you said before. I don't understand. Please try in slow motion too. And I don't get how the said compound consonant and the 10th consonant differs in pronunciation. Also try to give a 'sagittal view of the mouth' (maybe there is a more appropriate term) that is commonly seen to illustrate pronunciation technique.
Watch the video in slow motion
@@KaushikDasrulz Good idea.
It might sound like that because you have to stop the airflow when you're pronouncing the consonant (because of the voiced stop ज). But all you have to do is isolate the sound (voiced palatal stop) without the vowel (ज्) and then do the same with the nasal sound (voiced palatal nasal) without the vowel (ञ्) and then say them together without a gap.
excellent. really. I have wondered about this for a long time. MORE, please! *please!*
what I *don't* understand is how such a great explanation cannot be backed up with more language-based videos. THEN the "religious material. so much opportunity for helping people to learn Sanskrit, and yet...
ಪ್ರಜ್ಞಾನಂ ಬ್ರಹ್ಮ 😇🙏
Finally someone made a video on ज्ञ!
My teacher has told me about this...I am glad that I got to see this❤
Here in Ceylon (Sri Lanka) the correct pronunciation of Sanskrit language is well preserved in comparison to India. Main reason is that Sanskrit and Paali languages are learnt as holy and classical languages. Most of the Buddhist monks learn them well and pass the tradition to the next generation accurately. Paali is used in Buddhist religious practices but Sanskrit is used only for learning purposes. So the space for distorting the language is very low as it is in the hand of scholars. The letter ज्ञ is found in Sinhala Alphabet too as ඥ. It is formed as ජ + ඤ = ඥ (ज + ञ = ज्ञ) and pronounced exactly as you mentioned. The transliteration and IPA symbols used here are jña and /d͡ʒɲa/ respectively.
Ur wrong bro south indian dravidian languages pronounce it sanskrit same like how it's pronounced in sanskrit u hear kannada and telugu speaking u will get to know about it.
I was thinking about it a lot from past few days and you made a video it 😃😇
V strange..!
Thanks
Loved how you explained. Plz tell how to pronounce "ह्याश्रयतां" how do we pronounce the first letter. I know it's not pronounced as H.
Thank you.. Was just thinking about how to pronounce this alphabet correctly as everyone pronounces it differently and came across this video😃
🙏this is a very helpful video thank you. Also please explain the correct pronunciation for ब्रह्मा, चिह्न, जाह्नवी,वह्नि etc
Thanks for this video ❤
I was alws searching for my name pronunciation
Plzz make frequent videos for this series.. i m waiting here for another upload
I pronounce this letter correctly brother. In Telugu lipi also this letter is there like Sanskrit. I learnt Lalita sahasranaamam from my mother at the age of 4-5. I think before learning Telugu, I have learnt Sanskrit Slokas . At the age of 6 I read, news papers and every academic Telugu books I saw which is not related me also . For that continuous reading only I got perfection in Telugu reading and writing.
In Telugu states almost 99 percentage pronounce this letter so perfect brother.