LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 12 : 1 January 2012
ISSN 1930-2940

Managing Editor: M. S. Thirumalai, Ph.D.
Editors: B. Mallikarjun, Ph.D.
         Sam Mohanlal, Ph.D.
         B. A. Sharada, Ph.D.
         A. R. Fatihi, Ph.D.
         Lakhan Gusain, Ph.D.
         Jennifer Marie Bayer, Ph.D.
         S. M. Ravichandran, Ph.D.
         G. Baskaran, Ph.D.
         L. Ramamoorthy, Ph.D.

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Phonological Variation of Lexical Items in Bodo and Dimasa -
A Brief Note

Pratima Brahma, M.A., Ph.D. Scholar

Abstract

Ethnically, Bodo and Dimasa are of Mongoloid origin and their languages belong to the Bodo sub-section of the Bodo-Naga section under the Assam-Burmese group of the Tibeto-Burman branch of Sino-Tibetan or Tibeto-Chinese language family (Grierson 1903). The Tibeto-Burman group of languages have close affinities with languages likes Bodo, Garo, Kok-Borok, Lalung, Sonowal, Rabha, Mech, Deori, etc. Among them, Bodo, Dimasa and Kok-Borok are closer to each other than other languages of the group as far as their lexical items are concerned. However, in this paper, phonological variation of the Bodo and Dimasa will be discussed and other Tibeto-Burman languages are not covered at all.

The phonemic features of Bodo and Dimasa are analyzed in this paper by taking similar lexical items into consideration. The specimens present a number of features in respect of vowels, semi-vowels, consonant and stress-accents. These are described under the headings of vowel shifting, vowel deletion, consonant deletion, voicing, devoicing, vowel deletion, consonant deletion, monophthongisation, etc.

Introduction

North-East region of India is bounded by the political boundary of China in the North, Bhutan in the West, Bangladesh in the East and Burma (Myanmar) in the South. It comprises of Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Sikkim and Tripura. Of these, Assam is the biggest state (as per land area) in this region consisting of Brahmaputra Valley and Barak Valley. In Assam, languages belonging to different language families are found, namely Indo-Aryan and Tibeto-Burman.

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Pratima Brahma, M.A., Ph. D. Scholar
Department of Linguistics
Assam University
Silchar 788011
Assam
India
pratimabrahma@yahoo.in
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