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Volume 16:6 June 2016
ISSN 1930-2940

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Word Order in Ranglong

L. Pratima Devi, Ph.D. Scholar

Abstract

The paper is an attempt to study the word order of Ranglong in a sentence or phrase level. Ranglong is mainly spoken in two states of North Eastern India, namely, Tripura and Assam and with a few speakers in Mizoram. The paper highlights the word order of Ranglong such as the order of noun and adjective, demonstrative and noun, degree word and adjective, noun and numerals, etc.

Keywords: Ranglong language, Tibeto-Burman, North Eastern India, word order

Introduction

Ranglong (or Langrong as mentioned by Soppit in Linguistic Survey of India) are the Kukis of Hill Tipperah (Tripura) and are identical to the Rangkhols. Ranglong is a Tibeto-Burman language of Kuki-Chin sub-group spoken mainly in Tripura, Assam and Mizoram. The Ranglong language has close affinities with many other Tibeto-Burman languages like Aimol, Chiru, Kharam, Darlong, Molsom, Hrangkhol, Bongcher, Kuki, Mizo, etc. According to the Ethnologue (2016), the total population of Ranglong is 8000 approximately.

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L. Pratima Devi, Ph.D. Scholar
Department of Linguistics
Assam University
Silchar-788011
Assam, India
pratimadevi67@gmail.com
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