Volume 6, Number 3

Phonology of Bareilly Urdu

  Authors

Mehvish Mohsin, Aligarh Muslim University, India

  Abstract

This study aims to establish the phonology of Bareilly Urdu. Bareilly is a city of Uttar Pradesh state in northern India and the capital of Rohilkhand region. The name Bareilly Urdu is given to the regional language of Bareilly and adjacent villages.The data for the present study was collected through field work in the old city area of Bareilly district. The task of collecting and collating the data was started by preparing a wordlist of monosyllabic words appearing in ‘A Dictionary of Urdu, Classical Hindi and English’ by John T. Platts. Then, we moved to the target field for finding the equivalents of these monosyllabic words in the target language community. After analyzing the data, we have established a total of 60 phonemes. Out of which 36 are consonantal phonemes and 24 are vocalic phonemes (including vowels and diphthongs).

  Keywords

Bareilly Urdu, Phonology, Phonemes, Vowels and Consonants.