Lets look at the vowels and the words learnt so far and introduce a new letter M
Can you by looking at the figure above identify the following words in the next figure ? They consist of Urdu words in the first line and English in the next one.
The answers are Pakistan , Mama and Neem on the first line. The second line is mint , no , potato and the final line is name and then mine. The new mark is the hamza - a little one put over a vowel when one vowel follows another as here in the word MINE the vowel AA is followed by EE..
Other points to note are that the intial B or P has a short vertical rather than horizontal line when it has a vowel with it as in the word NO above and that the letter S often has an elongated shape as in the word Pakistan . Note also that the mark over the t in potato converts it into a hard T as in Turkey although the same mark when enlargd and used on its own is the soft Te as in TOTA - parrot.
It seems that the first soldiers who got to the subcontinent did not speak the Queen's English . So that the word CALL ( to call ) somebody is ususally written and pronounced as CAAL rather than CAUL by Urdu speakers. Also there is a tendency to add an I at the beginning whenever an English word is written with Urdu script , so the word SPIRIT for eg. is written and pronounced as ISPIRIT , school is written as ischool etc. Here however we will try and stick close to the English pronounciation.