LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 14:1 January 2014
ISSN 1930-2940

Managing Editor: M. S. Thirumalai, Ph.D.
Editors: B. Mallikarjun, Ph.D.
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Numerals in Zeme Naga

Francis Muchahary, Ph.D. Scholar

Abstract

The paper attempts to present some aspects of the numeral system which are used in Zeme Naga spoken in Dima Hasao (earlier N. C. Hills) district of Assam. It deals with cardinal, ordinal, multiplicative, distributional, fractional and restrictive numerals. The sub-types of cardinal numerals have also been presented.

1. Introduction

Zeme Naga is one of the sub-tribes of Zeliangrong which consists of Zeme, Liangmai and Rongmei. According to Grierson’s Linguistic Survey of India (1903), Zeme belongs to Naga-Bodo subgroup of the Tibeto-Burman family. However, Burling (2003) grouped it under Zeme group along with Liangmai and Rongmei. The Zeme Nagas are found in Tamenglong district of Manipur, Nagaland and Dima Hasao (earlier N. C. Hills) district of Assam. Most of the Zeme in Assam are bilingual. They use their language while communicating among themselves and Hindi (which is most popularly known as Halflong-Hindi) with others. According to 2001 Census of India, the total population of Zeme is 34,100.

2. Numerals

Numeral is a class of words denoting numbers (e.g. forty-two in English). Numeral plays a great role in human languages. It specifies different ways of using numbers in different situations. The numeral system in Zeme is decimal based. They are discussed below.

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Francis Muchahary, Ph.D. Scholar
Department of Linguistics
Assam University
Silchar-788011
Assam, India
India
francismucha@yahoo.in
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