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Urdu language phenomenical system has different nasal characteristics with Korean language as there are just two nasal conflictive elements ｢ن[noon]/n/ and م[meem]/m/｣ in Urdu language which are less than the three nasal conflictive elements ｢ㄴ/n/, ㅁ/m/, ㅇ/ŋ/｣ in Korean language, but due to the allophonic rules of alphabet ن[noon]/n/ Urdu also contains the three conflictive nasal ｢ㄴ/n/, ㅁ/m/, ㅇ/ŋ/｣ sounds in spoken language. This study is conducted to analyze whether the Pakistani students could cognize the distinction of three nasal conflictive elements of Korean final nasal constants or not. For the purpose, total 9 high frequent words from the vocal data of speaking exam which includes the nasal stop sounds of 10 Pakistani students has become the research subject of this paper. The words that become the subject of this paper are as following. 3 words are from one syllable words with nasal sounds are (안, 꿈, 명), 3 words from two syllable words with nasal sounds in the first place are (친구, 담배, 종교) and 3 words from two syllable words with nasal sounds in the last place are (공원, 사람, 고향). The result shows that the Pakistani students can cognize the distinction of three nasal conflictive elements and they did not shown the high utterance errors in pronouncing the one syllable words and two syllable words with nasal sound in last place. But, due to the influence of allophonic rules of urdu nasal alphabet ن[noon]/n/, Pakistani students shown the high utterance error in pronouncing the two syllable words with nasal sound in the first place following by the consonant. (Sangmyung University)