Phonetic Comparison of Urdu and Balti: A Review

Jamil Hussain
PhD Scholar, and Lecturer Islamabad Model College for boys G-10/4 Islamabad
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Dr Abdul Sattar Malik
Lecturer Department of Urdu, Allama Iqbal Open University, Islamabad

Abstract
This article is the study of language and its structure from a scientific perspective, analyzing phonetics. Phonetics is the main area of a language. Phonetics has three branches: Articulacy Phonetics, Acoustic Phonetics and Auditory Phonetics. Vocal organs have also an important role in the phonetics. Urdu and Balti are different languages belonging from different families. Balti is spoken in the north of Pakistan and has its own characteristics, so this article is a brief comparative study of Urdu and Balti phonetics.
Keywords: Phonetics, vocal organs, vowels, consonants, Urdu, Balti language.