The Comperative Study of Toba Bataknese Phoneme with English Phoneme As Found In Christmas Song

Abstract

This thesis entitled The Comperative Study of Toba Bataknese Phoneme with English Phoneme as Found In Christmas Song. This thesis analyze what vowel and consonant phonemes are found in both English and Toba Batak Language and then contrasts them to find out the similarities and the differences between both languages. Phoneme is the small unit of a language. It can distinguish a speech sound. The same letter can have the difference phoneme that can cause the difference meaning of a word. In this thesis, the writer contrasts the vowel phonemes based on the height of tongue, the position of tongue and the sape of lips when pronouncing them, while consonant phonemes are contrasted based on the lace of articulation, manner of articulation and the voicing when pronouncing them. This thesis applies qualitative research and library research, so the writer found some written source data from library and internet in doing this thesis.