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Volume 16:4 April 2016
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The Socio-Cultural Contexts of Recent Loan Substitutions
in Kokborok

Sheela Debbarma, Ph.D. Research Scholar

Abstract

Keywords:

Kokborok Language and Community

Since long North East India has been a place of diverse cultural amalgamation. It includes several states, popularly known as the “Seven sisters”. They are Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland and Tripura. These states consist of native tribes, each having their distinct traditions, such as, art, food, dress, culture, dance, music and life styles. Roughly, these states speak 220 languages, belonging mainly to three language families, namely Indo Aryan, Sino-Tibetan and Austric.

Kokborok is spoken by the major ethnic community of Tripura. The official identities of the Kokborok speaking communities are
• The Debbarma and some Tripuri communities using the surname Tripura,
• The Reang community which speaks the Kaubru dialect,
• The Jamatias,
• The Rupini and the Koloi, though allied with the Halam’s also use distinct varieties of Kokborok, and
• The Uchoi.

The language is genetically related to Boro, Dimasa, Tiwa, Garo, Rabha, Koch and Deuri; together these sister languages constitute the Bodo-Garo-Koch sub-branch of the Bodo-Jingpho-Northern Naga branch of the Tibeto-Burman sub-family of Sino-Tibetan Language. Outside Tripura, there is also a sizable population residing in Khagrachari Hills District of the Chittagong Hill Tracts in Bangladesh.

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Sheela Debbarma, Ph.D. Research Scholar
Department of English Arts and Commerce
Tripura University (A Central University)
Suryamaninagar – 799 022
Tripura, India
sheeladbb@gmail.com
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