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Reduplication in Hundung-Tangkhul

Khuraijam Jayshree Devi, Ph.D. Research Scholar

Introduction

Reduplication is the repetition of all or part of a lexical item (Abbi, 1992). According to Abbi, duplicating a morpheme or a word to coin new words and express various grammatical aspects is a common phenomenon with the languages of the Tibeto-Burman family.

Depending on the nature of the repeated unit, reduplication can be divided as complete or partial. It functions as a single lexical unit.

Expressive is a type of reduplication which includes onomatopoeic, mimics, imitative and sound symbolism.

Onomatopoeic and imitative is a sub-type of reduplication that represent any kind of natural sound, action, manner, etc. Onomatopoeic words may or may not be reduplicated.

Another type of reduplication is echo word which is reduplicated partially that either the initial phoneme or the syllable of the base is replaced by another phoneme or the syllable. Onomatopoeic and echo words are used to give more color to the characters in novels and short stories and to the speech.

Language

Hundung-Tangkhul is a Tibeto-Burman language of the Kuki-Chin-Naga subgroup spoken in Hundung village, Ukhrul District which is 81 km away from Imphal. This village is near the heart of Ukhrul town which is 3km apart from it. Hundung village is divided as Upper Hundung and Lower Hundung. This article mainly focuses on the data taken from Lower Hundung which is slidely different from Upper Hundung. It has a population of 2200 with 470 household. Previous scholars working on Tangkhul language, viz., Pettigrew (1979), Luikham (1974), Bhat (1969), Arokianathan (1987), David (2003).

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Khuraijam Jayshree Devi, Ph.D. Research Scholar
Department of Linguistics
Manipur University
Canchipur
Manipur State
India
jayes_khuraijam@yahoo.com
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