LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 12 : 1 January 2012
ISSN 1930-2940

Managing Editor: M. S. Thirumalai, Ph.D.
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The Applicative Suffix -na in K'cho

Kee Shein Mang, M. A. and George Bedell, Ph. D.

The K'cho language is spoken in southern Chin State, Myanmar, primarily in Mindat Township. The population of K'cho speakers is somewhere between 10,000 and 20,000. K'cho has no generally accepted standard orthography; we have tried to follow the most widely used conventions, as seen in Jordan (1969) and Ng'thu K'thaì (The New Testament, 2001) but supplemented by distinguishing long from short vowels (doubling the former) and tones (marked only for content words; a grave accent indicates a low tone and an acute accent a rising tone; unmarked syllables have a high tone). See Nolan (2002) for more details concerning K'cho phonology and orthography. Mang is responsible for the principal examples, and most of arguments and conclusions of this paper. Bedell is responsible for the structure diagrams and for the English text. Examples with chapter and verse citations are taken from 'Màtheiû' (the Gospel according to Matthew) in Ng'thu K'thaì (2001).

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Kee Shein Mang, M. A.
SIL International
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George Bedell, Ph. D.
Lecturer, Department of Linguistics
Payap University
Chiang Mai 50000
Thailand
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