Consonants and Vowels in English and Wambule: A Contrastive Study

Abstract

This paper deals with the Wambule phonemes and compares and contrasts them with English phonemes. Wambule, a Tibeto-Burman language is spoken by the same sub-ethnic group of Rai and English, though international language, is taught as one of the compulsory subjects from Nursery to Bachelor level in Nepal. In Nepalese context, Wambule speakers should compulsorily learn English. So, contrastive analysis between two languages plays a great role in suggesting some pedagogical implications. This paper attempts to compare and contrasts between two languages’ phonemes and suggests some pedagogical implications in brief.