LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 12 : 5 May 2012
ISSN 1930-2940

Managing Editor: M. S. Thirumalai, Ph.D.
Editors: B. Mallikarjun, Ph.D.
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A Sociolinguistic Profile of Saihriem

Debajit Deb, Ph.D. Scholar
Samir Debbarma, Ph.D. Scholar

Abstract

This paper attempts to present a sociolinguistic profile of Saihriem dialect spoken mainly in the five villages of Cachar district of Assam, viz., Balisor, Noxa, Nagathol, Bagbhar and Saihriemkho. More exclusively, this paper presents a sketch of location of speakers, genetic affiliation, population, bilingualism, language uses and maintenance, attitude, culture, festival, religion and lastly its comparative vocabularies with Hmar language.

Introduction

India is a country where many languages are traditionally spoken. The Kuki-chin sub-group of Tibeto-Burman language family includes more than 100 languages and dialects spoken in North East India including in the states of Manipur, Mizoram, Tripura, Nagaland and Assam. Assam is a state of breath-taking picturesque exquisiteness, rarest flora and fauna, lofty green hills, vast rolling plain, potent waterways and a land of fairs and festivals. The tribes of Assam are the colourful people. One such is Saihriem, Saihriem is one of the dialects of Hmar language of Kuki-Chin sub-group spoken in Northeast India.

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Debajit Deb, Ph.D. Scholar
Department of Linguistics
Assam University
Silchar-788011
Assam, India
debojit.rm@gmail.com

Samir Debbarma, Ph.D. Scholar
Department of Linguistics
Assam University
Silchar-788011
Assam, India
samirdebbarma85@gmail.com
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