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Nouns in Dhiyan
A Preliminary Investigation

S. Sulochana Singha, Ph.D. Scholar

Abstract

Dhiyan is the name of the language spoken by the Koch–Rajbangshi people of Barak Valley of southern Assam. Dhiyan is mainly spoken in ten villages in the Eastern part of Barak river namely Horinagar, Japirbon, Leburbon, Gororbon, Dewan (Labok) or Dewan Bosti, Narayanpur, Larchingpar, Thaligram, Lakkhichora, and Digli. Ethnically, they are Mongoloids however their language may fall under the Indo-Aryan sub-group of the Indo-European language family. Nevertheless no study has been made to prove their classification. The total population of Dhiyan speaking Koch-Rajbangshi in Barak valley is estimated about 2500 in approximate.

The present paper is a preliminary investigation on nouns in Dhiyan language. The present paper specifically focuses on the semantics and morpho-syntactic aspects of nouns in Dhiyan language.

Keywords: Dhiyan, Koch-Rajbongshi, Indo-Aryan, Eastern part of Barak river, Noun, Semantics and Morpho-syntax.

1. Introduction

Dhiyan is the name of language spoken by Koch–Rajbangshi people of Barak Valley of Southern Assam. Dhiyan is mainly spoken in ten villages in the Eastern part of Barak river namely Horinagar, Japirbon, Leburbon, Gororbon, Dewan (Labok) or Dewan Bosti, Narayanpur, Larchingpar, Thaligram, Lakkhichora, and Digli. Ethnically, they are Mongoloids however their language may fall under the Indo-Aryan sub-group of the Indo-European language family. Nevertheless no study has been made to prove their classification. . It is interesting to note that Dhiyan language has close contact with neighboring languages like Assamese, Bengali, Dimasa, and Manipuri. Therefore lexical items of all four languages are found in its vocabulary as loan elements. In this regard, some Koch-Rajbangshi scholars of Barak Valley are in opinion that they had their own language which is linguistically much closer to Boro, Deori, Dimasa, Garo, Tiwa, Dhimal and Toto of Eastern part of India particularly North Bengal and Northeast India. Etymologically, the term ‘Dehan’ is derived from the word ‘Dewan’ the court name of the commander of Koch army of Cachar which was given by the great Chilarai when he came to conquer Cachar in the middle of sixteenth century (Gait, 1984). The total population of Dhiyan speaking Koch-Rajbangshi in Barak valley is estimated about 2500 in approximate.

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S. Sulochana Singh, Ph.D. Scholar
Department of Linguistics
Rabindranath Tagore School of Languages and Cultural Studies
Assam University
Silchar-788011
Assam
India
sulo.kutu@gmail.com
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