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Volume 14:1 January 2014
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Case Markers in Tiwa Language: A Brief Study

Laheram Muchahary, Ph.D. Research Scholar

Abstract

Case is an important category of grammar. It is an inflected form of noun and pronoun which is used to show the relationship among different words used in a sentence. The present paper investigates the case marker in Tiwa language spoken in Assam. In this language, case is realized by the addition of case ending used as post positions. Therefore, they are called postpositional phrases. Postpositional phrases are made up of a noun phrase followed by post position.

1. Introduction

The North-eastern region is known for its diversity as different tribes live in this region for centuries together. This region of India is bounded by the political boundary of China in the north, Bhutan in the west, Burma in the east and Bangladesh in the south. It is comprised of eight states and they are Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Sikhim and Tripura.

Assam is the major state of the region. Tiwa is also one of the tribes of Assam, of Mongoloid origin. In a linguistic perspective, the Tiwa language belongs to the Bodo-Naga sub-group of Tibeto-Burman group of Sino-Tibetan language family. In older linguistic literature, they were known as Lalung. However, the native speakers call themselves as Tiwa, while the name Lalung was used only by the non-Tiwas.

In Tiwa language, ‘Ti’ means water and ‘wa’ means superior. The Tiwas originally inhabited the region of Tibet but the origin of their migration to the plains is yet to be traced and known. They followed the course of the river Brahmaputra and settled on the plains. They introduced themselves as Tiwa to the eager and curious non-Tiwas of the plains. The very name Lalung was given by the non-Lalungs.

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Laheram Muchahary, Ph.D. Research Scholar
Department of Linguistics
Assam University
Silchar
Assam
India
lmuchahary.7@gmail.com
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