Similar and

Dissimilar Sounds
in English and Urdu
Languages
Why?
To achieve native
like proficiency in
second or foreign
language
Why English?
International
Business
Language
 What are sounds?

 Some thing that you can hear.

( Oxford Advance Learner’s
dictionary)
Sounds are divided into :

 Consonant sounds
 Vowel sounds
Consonant
Sounds
What are consonants?
 Speech sound made by
completely or partially stopping
the flow of air being breathed out
through the mouth.

 Speech sound results in

constriction and closure at one or
more points along the vocal
tract.
English and Urdu
Consonant
Sounds
Similar Sounds
 b sound

 English

bad, lab, bold, band, button,

battle

 Urdu

baat, bekaar, barish, bund,

bundook
 f sound
 English

find, if, life, first, famous, food,

family

 Urdu

faarigh, fikr, faltu, filhaal, filvaqt

 v sound
 English

voice, volume, van, wave, cave

 Urdu

vaha~, vaqt, veham, verzish,

vaada
 s sound
 English

sun, sound, social, sense, settle

 Urdu

saath, suraj, safaed, saaf, soch

 z sound
 English

zoo, zebra, freeze, craze, zone

 Urdu

zukaam, zameen, zanjeer,

zabardast
 sh sound
 English

ship, show, shirt, shelf, shoulder

 Urdu

shaam, shaan, farmaish,

shandaar
 J sound
 English

jug, jump, jeep, jam, jealous, jar

 Urdu

jaloos, janvar, jazbaati, jaga,

jawab
 m sound
 English

Mango, man, mountain, more

 Urdu

mujhe, madad, mubarak,

meetha
 n sound
 English

north, new, now, when, than

 Urdu
naan, insaan, shaan, nokar,
nahi~
 y sound
 English
yes, yolk, yellow, yet, young

 Urdu
yaad, ye, yaha~
 ch sound
 English

check, cheese, cheat, chamber

 Urdu

choor, chalis, chenak, chand

 n~ sound
 English

going, bring, drink, shrink, link

 Urdu

chalen~, kahe~, rahe~, bole~

Partially Similar
Sounds
 p sound
 English

pin, apple, power, grip, trip, skip

 Urdu

pandra, pura, palna, sa~p, naap

 t sound
 English

tin, tip, tongue, teeth, tomorrow

 Urdu

tum, taar, teen, taj, mut, tariikh

timatar, topi, tokri, jhoot
 d sound
 English

day, dip, dawn, deep, dark

 Urdu

duur, deen, daan, deyr

dung, dandia,
 r sound
 English

red, role, rope, round, roof, root

 Urdu

rung, roshan, rasta, rukavat,

maar
 th sound
 English

thin, thought, through, think,

thigh
than, those, that, there, they

 Urdu

thaan, thodha, thaal

daal, dimagh, dil
 h sound
 English

help, hope, half, heart, hard

 Urdu

hulva, hamla, hulka, haath

 l sound
 English

language, melt, middle, settle

 Urdu

Lumha, Laal, baal, khaal, jaal

Sounds only in
English
Language
Z pleasure, vision
 w work, when, war
Vowel Sounds
What are vowels?
 A speech sound in which the
mouth is open and tongue is not
touching the top of the mouth,
teeth, etc.
English and Urdu
Vowel Sounds
English has only
oral vowel
sounds
 Urdu Vowel Sounds

Divided into
Oral vowel sounds
Nasal vowel sounds
Short Vowels
English Urdu

u hood u
uf
 a above a
anaar
 i hi t i
rizq
Dissimilar Sounds
 ae ca t
 o pot, lot

 e met, set, net

Long Vowels
Sounds
English Urdu
 aa car, jar aa
taar
 ii meat, neat ii
jeet
 uu food, root uu
jhuut
 oo board, road oo
Dissimilar
Sounds
 Fur
ee
Combination of
Two Vowel
Sounds
 Sounds which consists of a
movement or glide from one
vowel to another.
Diphthongs
English and Urdu
Diphthong
Sounds
Similar Sounds
 English Urdu
 ao cow, how ao
gao
 ai eye, fire ai
khai
 ua poor ua
dua
 ia fear ia
Dissimilar
e here , there
e

 ou g o, n o
 oi boy, joy