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अिङआ /ʌŋiɑ/ 'blouse' सङ /sʌŋ/ 'friendship'

d. Minimal pairs of म /m/ and 6 /m ̥ /
Word-initial Inter-vocalic Word-final

खामी /kʰɑmi/ 'fault' जाम /jɑm/ 'germinate'

खा6ी /kʰɑm ̥ i/ 'pillar' जा6 /jɑm ̥ / 'jam'
जमाई /jʌmɑi/ 'son-inl-law' जम /jʌm/ 'freeze (IMP)'

ज6ाई /jʌm ̥ ɑi/ 'yawning' ज6 /jʌm ̥ / 'death'

गमार /ɡʌm ɑr/ 'rural' थम /tʰʌm/ 'tree'

ग6ार /ɡʌm ̥ ɑr/ 'a species of wild wood' थ6 /tʰʌm ̥ / 'wait (IMP)'

e. Minimal pairs of न /n/ and ऩ /n ̥ /

Word-initial Inter-vocalic Word-final
कानल /kɑnʌl/ 'to cry' पेन /pen/ 'bottom'

काऩल /kɑn̥ ʌl/ 'to be yoked' पेऩ /pen̥ / 'put on'

अनार /ʌnɑr/ 'pomegranate' कान /kɑn/ 'ear'

अऩार /ʌn ̥ ɑr/ 'dark' काऩ /kɑn ̥ / 'shoulder''
िननाइल /nin ɑil/ 'to be sleepy' बान /bɑn/ 'habit'

िनऩाइल /nin ̥ ɑil/ 'to be cooked' बाऩ /bɑn ̥ / 'tie up, barrage

f. Minimal pairs of ङ /ŋ/ and 7 /ŋ ̊ /

Word-initial Inter-vocalic Word-final
लाङा /lɑŋɑ/ 'rude' सङ /sʌŋ/ 'friendship'

ला7ा /lɑŋ ̊ ɑ/ 'leapt' स7 /sʌŋ ̊ / 'union'

h) Flaps

There are four flaps in Bhojpuri: alveolar र /r/ and retroflex ड़ /ɽ/, both voiced

and unaspirated modal sonorants with their aspirate sonorant counterparts ऱ /r ̥ / and ढ़

/ɽ ̊ /. Awadhi (Saksena 1937/1971:24) and Hindi (Koul 2008:18) displays र /r/ and ड़ /ɽ/
as same as in Bhojpuri but their sonorant counterparts are exhibited breathy as ह> /rh/

and ?ह /ɽh/ respectively whereas Chitoniya Tharu (Paudyal 2013:61) displays only र

/r/ and its breathy counterpart ह> /rʰ/. Maithili (Yadav 1996:24) and Nepali (Adhikari

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