LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 12 : 6 June 2012
ISSN 1930-2940

Managing Editor: M. S. Thirumalai, Ph.D.
Editors: B. Mallikarjun, Ph.D.
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On Gender Marking in Rongmei Naga

Debajit Deb, Ph.D. Scholar

Abstract

The gender marking in Rongmei Naga is purely lexical and suffixing phenomenon without any grammatical implication. The main of this paper is to describe the gender system of Rongmei, a Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the three states of North Eastern India, viz., Assam, Manipur, and Nagaland. My study will be confined in the Cachar District of Assam, where more then 30 Rongmei inhabitant villages are there.

1. Introduction

The Rongmeis of Barak Valley are one of the major hill tribes community recognized by the state of Assam. British called them ‘Kacha Naga’ and Lushai called them ‘Milong’ (K. S. Singh, 1994: 173). The total population of Rongmei given in the Census of India is 61,197 (Census of India 2001). Ethnically, they are of mongoloid origin and migrated from the western part of Tibet along with the other groups of Mongoloid people to the region. Rongmei women are experts in weaving. They have a great heritage of traditional skills in weaving particularly making woolen cloths popularly known as Naga Shwal. Nowadays it is well-known all over India. The main occupations of Rongmei people of Cachar are piggery and cultivation but some of them are also employed in the government or non-governmental organizations. It is to be mentioned here that after migration from Manipur to the plains of Cachar and Hailakandi, they totally gave up their age-old practice of jhum cultivation.

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Debajit Deb, Ph.D. Scholar
Department of Linguistics
Assam University
Silchar-788011
Assam, India
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