Indic-origin names should not use “v”, the sound is entirely non-existent in Indic origin languages. Consider a word like a wave, a Hindi speaker might pronounce it as वेव but that’s incorrect. The first consonant “w” is pronounced just like व in Hindi with the two lips touching each other. The second consonant though involves …

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