Study of Intervention of English Sounds in Phonetics of Marathi: Emergence of 'Anglicized' Marathi Language
Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: The present paper is an attempt to analyze what was the recurrent requirement to modify the phonetic sound system in Marathi language generally and adding two English vowel sounds; /æ/ & /ɔ/ particularly. Is this an unavoidability of translation theory? Or is it making of ‘Anglicized’ Marathi? Marathi speakers have to ponder it on with an interest in this phenomenon. This is definitely not a common lingual event if two English vowel sounds have been added to the Marathi language which is almost 2500 years old Indo – Aryan Language. Undoubtly, English is comparatively a new language in respect of age to Marathi. On account of simplifying the entry to loan words from English to Marathi English sounds are added /æ/ (as in “act” or “cat”) and /ɔ/ (as in “all” or “thought”). These are represented in the Devanagari script as ॲ and ऑ, respectively, expanding the traditional set of 12 vowels to 14. Nowadays, two binary approaches are being discussed; Marathi language will have its advantage and on the other hand it’s a threat for Marathi.
Source: ಅಕ್ಷರಸೂರ್ಯ (AKSHARASURYA)
Author: Santosh Prakash Patil
Language: English
Subfield: Language and Linguistics
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W7084619678
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