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रोग /roɡ/ 'disease' गरल /ɡʌrʌl/ 'to be वीर /bir/ 'gallant, brave

squeezed, poison'
लोग /loɡ/ 'people' गलल /ɡʌlʌl/ 'to decay' िबल /bil/ 'a hole'

राग /rɑɡ/ 'ragas of बोरल /borʌl/ 'to drip into नार /nɑr/ 'the portion in the
oriental music' liquid' hilt of a sickle'

लाग /lɑɡ/ 'relation' बोलल /bolʌl/ 'to speak' नाल /nɑl/ 'a drum'

d. Minimal pairs of ज /j/ and य /y/

Word-initial Inter-vocalic Word-final
जौन /jɔn/ 'who' आजा /ɑjɑ/ 'grandfather' आज /ɑj/ 'today'

यौन /yɔn/ 'sex' आया /ɑyɑ/ 'a nurse' आय /ɑy/ 'income'

जान /jɑn/ 'life' छाजा /cʰɑjɑ/ 'a cover' माज /mɑj/ 'clean'

यान /yɑn/ 'airplane' छाया /cʰɑyɑ/ 'shadow' माय /mɑy/ 'mother'
माजा /mɑjɑ/ 'enjoyment'

माया /mɑyɑ/ 'love, affection'

e. Minimal pairs of स /s/ and छ /cʰ/
Word-initial Inter-vocalic Word-final

साता /sɑtɑ/ 'a card of seven' बिसआ /bʌsiɑ/ 'stale' िबस /bis/ 'twenty'
छाता /cʰɑtɑ/ 'umbrella' बिछआ /bʌcʰiɑ/ 'the cow- िबछ /bicʰ/ 'select and

calf' collect'
सानल /sɑnʌl/ 'to knead' पोसन /posʌn/ 'farming' रीस /ris/ 'anger'

छानल /cʰɑnʌl/ 'to select, to पोछन /pocʰʌn/ 'sweeping रीछ /ricʰ/ 'bear'

dip fry' cloth'

सेदल /sedʌl/ 'to heat, to bake' आशा /ɑsɑ/ 'hope' कुश /kus/ 'cannabis'

छेदल /cʰedʌl/ 'to pierce' आछा /ɑcʰɑ/ 'good' कुछ /kucʰ/ 'something'
4.1.2 Sonorant consonants

In Bhojpuri, म /m/, न /n/, ङ /ŋ/, ल /l/, र /r/ and ड़ /ɽ/ have their aspirate

sonorant counterparts 6 /m ̥ /, ऩ /n ̥ /, 7 /ŋ ̊ /, @ /l ̥ /, ऱ /r ̥ / and ढ़ /ɽ ̊ / respectively, already

exhibited with phonological contrasts. But they are being treated as breathy phonemes
in its neighbours and also in some Tibeto-Burman languages. They are acoustically

analyzed in this subsection to classify them appropriately.

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