| Abstrakt: |
Generally, a language changes according to its speakers' speech community and their family and living locality. On the basis of its usages, region and environment, every native speaker differs in the process of language change, vocabulary, style, context, situations, topics, etc. The language change process regularly happens in all the languages of the world. As Aitchison (1991) suggested that, "Language like everything else, gradually transforms itself over the centuries". The current study is an attempt to analyse the phonological changes in Urdu as spoken in Rampur. Mostly the speakers of Rampuri Urdu break the consonant clusters using monosyllabic words. For instance, they use the words /xrc/, and /drd/ in place of /xrc/ 'expenditure' and /drd/ 'pain' and change the CVCC structure into the CVCVC structure. This study is purely based on the spoken data collected from native speakers of Urdu in the Rampur district of Uttar Pradesh. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
