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Volume 16:7 July 2016
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Kurukh Phonology: A Descriptive Study

Alisha Vandana Lakra, Research Scholar
Md. Mojibur Rahman, Associate Professor
Department of Humanities and Social Sciences
Indian School of Mines

Abstract

The present study provides a description of Kurukh phonology, the language spoken by the Oraon community in and around Ranchi. It briefly deals with the description of phonemes of Kurukh. The study describes vowel and consonant sounds of Kurukh; consonant clusters; syllable structures; and suprasegmental features such as nasalization, length, stress, and intonation.

Keywords: vowel, consonant, consonant cluster, syllable, suprasegmental features.

The Language and the Community

Kurukh is predominantly the language of the Oraon tribe of the Chota Nagpur Plateau of East Central India and spoken by approximately 2 million people. The language is the member of the North Dravidian sub family of the Dravidian Languages. The culture and the language is close to their neighbouring Austric family languages, the Santals and the Mundas which concludes that the Kurukh Language is surrounded by the speakers of the Munda language family and is considerably influenced by Hindi, Bengali, Munda and many other languages in contact. (Mishra, 2008).

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Alisha Vandana Lakra, Research Scholar
Department of Humanities and Social Sciences
Indian School of Mines
Dhanbad-826004
Jharkhand
India
alisha.ismdhanbad@gmail.com
lishnish3@gmail.com

Md. Mojibur Rahman, Associate Professor
Department of Humanities and Social Sciences
Indian School of Mines
Dhanbad-826004
Jharkhand
India
mrahmanelt@gmail.com

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