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Volume 14:6 June 2014
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The Phonological Study of Toto Language

Chibiram Basumatary, M.A.

Toto People

Ethnically Totos are considered as the Mongoloid race. According to G.A Grierson (1901), Linguistics Survey of India, Volume-III, Part-I, Toto language belongs to a Himalayan subgroup of the Tibeto-Burman Language family. Toto Language is spoken in an area called Totopara. Totopara is located in Madarihat under the Police Station of Alipurduar Sub-division of Jalpaiguri district of West-Bengal. The Toto villages are situated at the foothills of the Himalayas towards south of the border between Bhutan and West-Bengal. The Titi forest exists in the southern and western boundary of Totopara whereas Torsa river lies in the east. Totopara is sub-divided into six small villages namely, 1.Mondalgaon, 2.Dumsigaon, 3.Pujagaon, 4.Subagaon, 5.Ponchayetgaon and 6.Mitrangaon. According to Grierson (‘Linguistics Survey of India’, pp-250-251), Toto is a non-pronominalised language.

Toto language consists of 25 segmental Phonemes of which 19 are consonants and 6 are vowels.

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Chibiram Basumatary, M.A.
Department of Linguistics
Assam University
Silchar-788011
Assam
India
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