TRANSFORMATIONAL LANGUAGE, LITERATURE, AND TECHNOLOGY OVERVIEW IN LEARNING (TRANSTOOL) Volume 1 ISSUE 2 (2022) TRANSFORMATIONAL LANGUAGE, LITERATURE, AND TECHNOLOGY OVERVIEW IN LEARNING | TRANSTOOL https://ojs.transpublika.com/index.php/TRANSTOOL/ 25 A CONTRASTIVE ANALYSIS OF CONSONANT BETWEEN ENGLISH AND BATAK TOBA LANGUAGE IN CONVERSATION Putri Amelia Simbolon 1* , Grace Saurma Hutahaean 2 , Anita Sitanggang 3 1,2,3 Universitas HKBP Nommensen Pematangsiantar E-mail: 1) putriameliasimbolon834@gmail.com, 2) gracesaurma210@gmail.com, 3) anitasitanggang2019@gmail.com Abstract Language is an indispensable communication tool. Language also a means of self-expression, a means of social adaptation in certain environments and situations. Even so, the language is very indistinct, unclear and confusing. This study will compare the consonant between English and Batak Toba language in the conversation about “Education”. This research focused to compare ten consonant in English and Batak Toba Language in conversation. A descriptive qualitative research is used in this research. The technique of analyzing data is by compare ten consonants between English and Batak Toba language in conversation “Education”. The conversation consisting of ten consonants shows the differences between English and Batak Toba Language. The findings in this study are that there are fewer consonants in English than in Batak, especially in the initial and middle positions, which can be seen from the table above. Furthermore, the researcher found the difference in the consonant /d/ precisely in the final position. Keywords: English consonants, Batak Toba language consonants, Contrastive Analysis, Differences 1. INTRODUCTION Language is the human ability to communicate in doing all daily activities. People socialize with each other using language (Mailani et al., 2022). Mydans (2007) in (Plonski et al., 2013) English has got the status of international language for various reason. In this era, English is very important because English is an international language. In order to socialize internationally, everyone must be fluent. Many people around the world are trying to improve their abilities in English language. In Indonesia consists of various ethnics, custom and language. Like Batak Toba Language, they use Batak Toba language to socialize with each other and Batak Toba language also has grammar and phonemes to learn. Language has relationship with linguistics. According to Martinet & Hidayat (1987). “Linguistic is a science that takes language as its object of study.” Based on the definition given by Martinet, it can be concluded that linguistics is a field of study that related to language. as it is concerned with language, the object of study is everything related to language. When learning language means learning linguistics. In linguistics there are several branches such as Phonology, Morphology, Syntax, Semantic and Pragmatic (Robins, 2014). Fram (2013) states that Contrastive Analysis is the one in which the similarities and differences between two languages at particular levels are explicated in the context of a chosen theoretical framework. Lukisan (2017) explains that Contrastive Analysis to discuss two differences and two analyses the differences between them. From the explanation above, the researcher gets the main point that Contrastive Analysis is a method used to find a