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| | A Contrastive Analysis of Hindi and Malayalam |
 | | The stop consonants /p, ph, b, t, th, d, c, ch, j, k, kh, g/ are similar in both Malayalam and Hindi. |
 | | The major patterns found in the initial two consonant clusters are stop + trill, stop + lateral, nasal + semivowel, fricative + stop, fricative + nasal, fricative + lateral, fricative + trill, fricative + semivowel, semivowel + trill, semi-vowel + semivowel in both Malayalam and Hindi. |
 | | Thus in the initial position when stop is the first member, the second member can be trill, lateral, fricative or semivowel and when fricative is the first constituent stop, nasal, lateral, trill, fricative or semivowel can occur as the second constituent in both the languages. |
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