Hindi: Does मेंढक contain an anusvaara or a chandrabindu?

  • मेंढक contains an anusvaara. The sound it represents in this word is prescriptively a nasal vowel, though some may pronounce it as a homorganic nasal consonant which in this case would be a retroflex.
     
    मेंढक contains an anusvaara. The sound it represents in this word is prescriptively a nasal vowel, though some may pronounce it as a homorganic nasal consonant which in this case would be a retroflex.
    If I understand you correctly, some people nasalize the and some may pronounce the word as मेण्ढक?
     
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