Contrastive Analysis of Consonant Sounds: A Perspective of English and Urdu Languages

Abstract

This is an open secret now that all the languages around the world use different phenomes. But in the recent years’ it has been noticed that researchers are longingly exploring the phenomics variations across languages. Urdu and English languages have distinctive phonemic features; first one is national language, while the latter is used as a second language in Pakistani context. Phonemic cognizance preforms a pivotal role in getting command in second language. Owing to this fact present research was conducted to ease the communication process. The contrastive analysis approach was used to analyze the consonant sounds of English and Urdu languages. The findings of this study divulge that there are notable similarities in the consonantal features of both languages; and similarly, there are also some dissimilarities between the consonantal features of both languages. The findings of the present research would be valuable for educationalists and ESL learners.