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Phonological Features in Dijuwa: A Dimasa Dialect

Pronomita Rajioung

Abstract

This paper discusses the phonological features in Dijuwa dialect of Dimasa spoken in Karbi Anglong district of Assam and Dimapur district of Nagaland. It belongs to Bodo-Garo group of Tibeto-Burman language family. It introduces the segmental and supra-segmental which includes vowel phonemes, distribution of vowel phonemes, diphthongs, distribution of diphthongs, consonant phonemes, distribution of consonant phonemes, consonant cluster and syllable structure.

Keywords: Dijuwa, Dimasa, Assam, Dimapur, Nagaland.

1. Introduction

Dimasa is one of the multi-cultured people of North-East India. They have well-preserved rituals and rich history. They are racially Indo-Mongoloids origin (Barpujari 2007) and linguistically they belong to Bodo-Garo group of the Tibeto-Burman language family (Lewis, Simons and Fenning 2013). The term ‘Dimasa means ‘sons of the great river where ‘di’ means water, ‘ma’ means big and ‘sa’ means sons (Singha 2007). Literally, they are called ‘son of the mighty Brahmaputra river’ According to 2001 census, the population of Dimasa in Assam is recorded 110,976 speakers. Dimasas are mainly live in Assam and bordering states of North-East India. Based on geographical distribution, Dimasa has four main dialects: Hasao, Hawar, Dembra and Dijuwa. Hasao is standard dialect spoken in Dima Hasao district of Assam. Hawar is spoken in Cachar, Karimganj and Hailakandi district of Assam and bordering village of Mizoram and Manipur. Dembra is spoken in Hojai and Nagaon district of Assam. Dijuwa is spoken is spoken in Karbi Anglong district of Assam and Dimapur district of Nagaland.

This is the first attempt to analyse the phonological features of Dijuwa dialect of Dimasa. In this paper, we will discuss their segmental and supra-segmental features of the dialect.

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Pronomita Rajioung
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Department of Linguistics
Assam University, Silchar
rpronomita87@gmail.com
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