Abstract

Phonemic correspondence could not be separated from sound changes law. Sound changes among cognate languagesin reflecting sounds found in proto-language resulted different language or dialect, it happened systematically or sporadically. The research is important to find out sound changes arising in Soppeng and Ennak dialects, even both dialects are the same language. The aim of the research is to uncover the form of phonemic correspondence using recurrence, co-occurrence, or analogy. Method used is descriptive qualitative through formal and informal phonemic correspondence. Result of the research finds out sound variations of both dialects, they are [/a: ~ a / # -], [/a: ~ a/#k -], [/u: ~ u/# -], [/u: ~ u/# -], [/o ~ ə / -k# ], [/o: ~ ə / -k# ], [w(w) ~ h (O)/ # -] , [w ~ n/ v – v], [O ~ w/ v – v], [O ~ h/ # -], [b ~ h (O )/ # -], [l:l ~ llv].

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