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Diagram 4.1: Bhojpuri syllable
Syllable

(Onset) Core

Peak (Coda)

Simple Complex

Nucleus Satellite

C V V V C(C)
Source: Shukla (1981:31)
a. Simple peak

A simple peak appears with a vowel with or without a coda or by a coda of
consonant clusters, as shown in (17a-b).

(17) a. हमार /ɦʌ-mɑr/ 'my/mine', अँचार /ʌ-cɑr/ 'pickle', दलाल /dʌ-lɑl/ 'broker', कला
̃
/kʌ-lɑ/ 'art'

b. सोचंत [सोच9त] /so-cʌnt/ 'sensible', अ-कलमंद [अ-कलम9द] /ʌ-kil-mʌnd/

'intelligent'
b. Complex peak

A complex peak appears with or without a coda, as shown in (18).
(18) पइसा /pʌi-sɑ/ 'money', गइबार /ɡʌi-bɑr/ 'cow-boy', लठइत /lʌ-ʈʰʌit/ 'villain's guard'

4.5 Phoneme-grapheme interface
The correspondence between the topography of Devanagari and Bhojpuri

speech seems to be regular and systematic to a greater extent as observed in Hindi
(Pandey, 2007). It is largely true for 'tadbhava' forms and recent borrowings from

English and other languages. But it is almost inconsistent for the 'tatsama' forms. We
discuss below the main aspects of the phonetic and phonological facts that the

orthography represents.
4.5.1 Phonological facts of representation

Bhojpuri orthography excludes the effects of the phonological processes of
schwa deletion, nasal assimilation (optionally) and consonant gemination, and
represents forms that are to inputs to these processes.

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