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Numeral System in Thadou

Dr. D. Mary Kim Haokip

Abstract

The paper aims to discuss the nature of numeral system in Thadou, a Kuki-Chin language of the Northern Kuki-Chin group of the Tibeto-Burman group of the Sino-Tibetan languages spoken mainly in the north-eastern part of India including Manipur, Assam, Nagaland, Mizoram, Tripura and some parts of the neighbouring country, Myanmar by 2000,000 speakers approximately. Thadou, like other Kuki-Chin languages follows the decimal system of counting. The numbers from 1 to 10 have separate lexical item and follow a monomorphemic pattern. From 1 to 19, the numeral system of Thadou is purely decimal. The higher numerals are formed by different processes like additives, multiplicatives etc. Numerals in Thadou can be classified into: cardinals, ordinals, fractional,multiplicative and approximates. Numerals in Thadou are adjectives and they follow the head noun as in other SOV languages.

Keywords: decimal, basic numerals, cardinal, ordinal

1 The Language

Thadou (ISO 639-3: TCZ) is a Kuki-Chin language of the Nothern Kuki-Chin group of the Tibeto-Burman group of the Sino-Tibetan languages and is spoken mainly in the north-eastern part of India including Manipur, Assam, Nagaland, Mizoram, Tripura and some parts of the neighbouring country, Myanmar with a population of 2000,000 speakers approximately. It is also spoken in the Chittagong hill tract of Bangladesh. Various spellings exist: Thado, Thadou, Thadow, Thaadow, Thaadou. The name also occurs in combination with names for groups of closely related languages, Kuki (in India) and Chin (in Myanmar), such as Thadou-Kuki, Kuki-Thadou, Chin-Thado, etc. It is closely related to other Kuki-Chin languages like Gangte, Paite and Zo. The language is called Thadou pao which literally means ‘Thadou language’.

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Dr. D. Mary Kim Haokip
Assistant Professor
Department of Linguistics
Assam University, Silchar
Assam
India
marykimhaokip@gmail.com
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