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Reduplication in Liangmai

I. D. Raguibou, Ph.D. Research Scholar

1.0 Introduction

Liangmai is one of the tribes of Zeliangrong Naga. Zeliangrong is a name given to the amalgamation of four tribes, namely, Zeme, Liangmai, Rongmei and Puimai. It is said that these tribes are the descendants of the same father. Liangmai is the name of both the people and of the language. Ethnically, Liangmai are Mongoloids and their language belongs to Kuki-Naga section of the Kamarupan group of the Baric sub-division of Tibeto-Burman family of languages (Matisoff, 2001). Liangmai language is mainly spoken in the Tamenglong and Senapati districts of Manipur and Tening and Jalukie areas of the Paren district of Nagaland. The other languages spoken in the neighborhoods include Zeme (TB), Rongmei (TB), and Meitei (TB). According to the 2001 census of India, the total population of Liangmai in India was 34,232 with 17,477 males and 16,755 females. The majority of Liangmai speakers reside in Manipur with a total population of 32,787 as per the 2001 census report.

1.1 Reduplication in Liangmai

Reduplication is the repetition of a part or a whole of a lexical item carrying a semantic modification. It is a common phenomenon in the languages of the world, taking a variety of forms which serve different purposes. Liangmai language also uses various reduplication processes for the purpose of creating new words by either repeating a syllabus or the whole word. Different process of reduplication like expressive that includes onomatopoeias, sound symbolism, idiophones and imitative, compounds and word reduplications are used in Liangmai.

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I. D. Raguibou, Ph.D. Research Scholar
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Assam University
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