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ASPIRATION OF IMPLOSIVE SOUNDS Abstract In Sindhi language/Linguistics much is to be yet researched, inquired and worked on, many discourses remain untouched; recently Mr. Shabir Kumbhar has published his work regarding Sindhi fonts of aspirates’ diagraph letters. Such work brings forth a necessity of seriousness by the authorities or institutions in validating or declaring the standards, unfortunately it is done by an individual and thus proposes certain confusions. On such confusions and mistakes in print media fonts and Sindhi computer composing Dr. Jaitley has always acted as highlighter but unfortunately scholars in Sindh have remained inattentive to the issue. Mr. Shabir is busy in developing fonts for right and appropriate usage of aspirates’ diagraphs, such as: ’جهه ‘and ’گهه ‘and will soon come to standardize a font. Mr. Shabir is a person of computing engineering, when he touches the issues of linguistics, there is a possibility and risk of lacking substantial understanding according to parameters of linguistics. He has declared 10 extra aspirate sounds. From these, five ( ڙه، ڻهه، نهه، مهه، لهه( are mentioned in Sindhi Primer book, and three (وه، ره، ڏه (are declared as Utradi by Dr. Memon Abdul Majeed Sindhi. As mentioned by Dr. Sindhi, the ’ڏه ’is implosive sound, whereas the phenomenon of aspirate sound is Plosive. In this regard the aspirate sound of implosive may be impossible, because of their opposing direction of articulated air. Mr. Shabir declared 2 extra aspirate sound, ’رنهه‘،’ڳهه .’These two extra aspirate sounds are not studied/considered in linguistically appropriate parameters.’ڳهه ’is rooted from ’ڳ ’which is implosive sound; whereas aspirate sound is Plosive, so it is practically impossible to regard وسر ئروھ [ ] 68 the aspirate sound of ’ڳ .’In this regard, segmenting and blending or cluster of sound may be seen in other ways in some words, where ’ڳ’ and ’هه ’are found.’رنهه ’can’t be declared an aspirate according to parameters of phonemics, because in this ‘ن ‘letter is stands for a nasal vowel sound, which separates the letters ’ر ’and ’هه .’It shows a poor approach by the writer towards understanding the sounds of phonemes and syllables. In this paper a simple study is brought forward to examine the discourse of aspirate sounds of implosive sounds and make analysis of such words regarding phonemes

Dr Altaf Jokhio. (2018) A critical study of aspirate and aspiration of implosive sounds , Karoonjhar Research Journal, Volume 18-19, Issue-2.
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