LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 13 : 3 March 2013
ISSN 1930-2940

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A Linguistic Analysis of Misspelled Words in Urdu

Iram Sabir, Ph.D. in Linguistics

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to investigate the written Urdu errors by Urdu medium students in Auraiya. This paper aims to identify the written errors of Urdu as a second language in Uttar Pradesh, India. Researcher has provided quantitative validation for the qualitative analysis. This study is limited in scope in as much as Urdu has a writing system which is different from other languages such as English. The students in this study had difficulties in writing Urdu. Sometimes they insert or omit consonant and vowel in the word. For example: ??? ??? /a:be: pash/ (?? ??? /a:b-e-pash/ ) (Pot by which water was given to plants), ????? /a:xi:rat/ (???? /a:xrat/) (The other world after death), ??? /a:gan/, ????/ã:gan/ (Court-yard) and sometimes they change the arrangement of letters in a word. Every letter is correctly written but with inaccurate placement. For example: ??? /luft/ as??? /lutf/ (Enjoy), and ?? ???? /abri:sham/ as ?????? /abre:sham/ (Raw silk).

Keywords: Orthographic errors, word boundaries, Insertion, Omission, Permutation, Substitution.

Introduction

Language teaching is a complex set of activities all aiming to language learning. A good language teaching theory always aims at meeting all necessities of learners in the best possible ways. Error analysis is the best tool for describing and explaining errors made by students. It helps to know the sources of difficulties of the learners. It also draws the main features of Urdu writing system, which consists of letters, associated forms and diacritical marks.

Urdu language is spoken in India as well as in Pakistan. Urdu is also among the languages whose writing system is diverse from that of English. Urdu has many irregularities in its spellings for a variety of reasons such as it has many homophonous letters and many words exhibit a variance between sound and spelling. In brief, for the most part, the speech sounds in Urdu are represented with more than one letter and vice versa.

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Dr. Iram Sabir
Assistant Professor
Department of English
Al-Jouf University
Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
dr.iramameen@gmail.com

C/o. Mr. Sabir Hussain (Teacher, Minto Circle)
H/no. 4/340, Alam Bagh,
Bhamola, Aligarh
Uttar Pradesh
India

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