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Are there any Hindi/Urdu dialects that pronounce ai and au as diphthongs?
In the Lonely Planet Hindi/Urdu phrasebook it says that ai and au are diphtongs, so 'hai' sounds like 'high' and 'kaun' sounds like 'kown.' I was asking because I always here them as 'heh' and 'kon.'
Correct pronunciation of "hai" is neither "heh" nor as "high". The correct pronunciation is as "a" in "hat"
Similarly, the correct pronunciation of "kaun" is "con", as pronounced by the British.
You can listen to both words at the beginning of this song (kaun hai jo sapnon me aayaa):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jN5lLXMYiYM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_3EU5RtbYo
Yes, some people do pronounce the words as described by you and by Lonely Planet. I have seen people in the East (Eastern UP, Bihar, or those speaking Bhojpuri) pronounce it as what you call as dipthongs -- ?? and ???). You can also hear this pronunciation in some old Hindi movies. Similarly, people in some Pakistani regions pronounce it as "hay" and "cone", but I thought that was because Urdu script doesn't differentiate between hai and hay or kaun and kone.
