LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 14:7 July 2014
ISSN 1930-2940

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Tones in Meiteilol: A Phonetic Description

Meiraba Takhellambam

Abstract

Meiteilol is a Tibeto-Burman language spoken in Manipur, a state in the northeastern part of India. Meiteilol has a relatively simple tonal system which is in contrast to the other Tibeto-Burman languages in the area; it has a two way tonal contrast in isolation:

a) H Level Tone (i )
b) HL Falling Tone (i^ )

The main claim of the paper is that the Tone Bearing Unit in Meiteilol is the Rhyme. The paper also claims that the relative simplicity of the tone system of Meiteilol is due to its rich consonantal inventory which can occur at the Coda position and that the realisation of tonal contrast can be affected by the Coda consonants.

1. Phonological Sketch of Meiteilol

Meiteilol has 20 consonants. Meiteilol exhibits three categories of consonantal constriction; Stops /p t k c m n ? p? t? k?/, Fricatives /s h/, and approximants /w j l/. Meiteilol has voiced stops in allophonic distribution, and the lateral approximant has an allophone which is a trill /r/.

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Meiraba Takhellambam
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Jawaharlal Nehru University
New Delhi-110067
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