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Case Marking in Lairamlo: A Preliminary Investigation

Aheibam Linthoinggambi Chanu, Ph.D. Research Scholar

Abstract

The present paper attempts to describe the case marking in Lairamlo, mainly spoken in Chandel district of Manipur. Lairamlo is a dialect of Tangkhul, a tribal language of Manipur which belongs to the Kuki-Chin-Naga subgroup of the Tibeto-Burman sub family of languages (Grierson’s LSI, 1903). Tangkhul has a large number of dialects which are mutually unintelligible to each other. As in many other Tibeto-Burman languages and dialects, case relation in the dialect is expressed by means of postpositions. Lairamlo has eight types of case namely (i) nominative, (ii) accusative, (iii) dative, (iv) instrumental, (v) locative, (vi) genitive, (vii) associative, and (viii) ablative.

Keywords: Lairamlo, Tangkhul, Tibeto-Burman, Manipur, Case marking.

1. Introduction

Lairamlo is one of the dialects of Tangkhul, a tribal language of Manipur. Tangkhul belongs to the Kuki Chin Naga sub-group of Tibeto Burman family (Grierson’s LSI, 1903). Tangkhul has a large number of dialects which are mutually unintelligible to each other. Arokianathan (1987) noted that there are 219 Tangkhul villages and each village has its own dialect or speech form name after the village and they can’t communicate to each other in their own dialects. However, they use one common language. That language is known as Standard Tangkhul. So Lairamlo is a dialect of Tangkhul which is spoken by the Ringpam people in Ringpam or Momlo-Ringpam village in the Machi sub-division of Chandel District of Manipur, which is about 40 kilometers away from Imphal. Lairamlo is also spoken other two villages in Manipur namely Lairam Khullen in Ukhrul District and Merry Land in Chandel District of Manipur. The term Ringpam is a compound word ri? ‘alive’ and p?m ‘land’ which literally means ‘living land’. In the Ringpam village, the total number of Lairamlo speakers is estimated about 540 and numbers of houses found in the same village are around 104. Ringpam have their heritage language and culture which have been inherited from their forefathers. However, they do not have their own script and literature.

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Aheibam Linthoinggambi Chanu
Research Scholar
Assam University, Silchar
Assam
India
linthoiaheibam77@gmail.com

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