English has a very commonly used vowel that doesn’t exist in Indic languages natively.
It is ɛ
- Open-mid front unrounded vowel.
Consider the word bet
, its vowel sound is halfway between bat/बैत़
and bait/बेत़
.
This vowel is fairly common in English, for example, tech
whose vowel sound is halfway between tack
and take
.
Or met
which is half-way between mat
and mate
.
Now, this sound is not natively written in Hindi.
However, this does show up in various spoken words like रहना
, कहना
, and सहन
.
And the native speakers intuitively know that the pronunciations deviate from the written spelling in these cases.
A better way might be to use a different symbol(ॆ) to represent this vowel, for example, bat/बैत़
-> bet/बॆत़
-> bait/बेत़
.