LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 13 : 2 February 2013
ISSN 1930-2940

Managing Editor: M. S. Thirumalai, Ph.D.
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Consonant Correspondences in (Six) Dialects of Manipuri

Nongmaithem Pritamkumar Singh, Ph. D. Scholar
P. Madhubala, Ph.D.

Abstract

Manipuri (Meeteilon) is one of the important Tibeto-Burman languages of India and has a number of dialects. This paper tries to give the consonant correspondences of the six dialects of Manipuri. These six dialects (Kumbi, Thanga, Wangoo, Chairel, Heirok and Imphal) have similarities and dissimilarities regarding some aspects. But the paper focuses mainly on consonants correspondences of these six dialects. The correspondences can be analysed as identical and non-identical correspondences.

Introduction

Manipuri is Tibeto-Burman language spoken mainly in Manipur, a north eastern state of India. It is also known as Meeteilon. According to Grierson-Konow (1903), the Manipuri belongs to Kuki-Chin groups of Sino Tibetan family of languages. Manipuri is not only the name of the people of Manipur but also the language which is spoken by Meetei community known as Manipuri.

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Nongmaithem Pritamkumar Singh, Ph. D. Scholar
Department of Linguistics
Manipur University
Canchipur
Imphal – 795 003
Manipur
India
pkangomcha52@gmail.com

P. Madhubala, Ph.D.
Department of Linguistics
Manipur University
Canchipur
Imphal – 795 003
Manipur
India
pmadhubala@gmail.com
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