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Volume 14:5 May 2014
ISSN 1930-2940

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Inventory of Anal Vowel Phonemes

Angom Surjit Meitei, Ph.D. Student

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This paper attempts to highlight the inventory of Anal vowel phonemes. Anal belongs to the Tibeto-Burman language family. The speakers of Anal language are also known as Anal. They live mostly in the Chandel district of Manipur. It is popularly believed that they could have come from Mongolia and they migrated to upper Burma in Kabaw Valley in the trans-Chindwin basin. The Anal society is a patriarchal society but it is not definitely a male-dominated one. The whole society is divided into two moieties (Mosum and Mulchal) which are further dived into lineage. The two moieties are exogamous groups.

There are six vowel phonemes in Anal, i.e.; i, e, ?, a, u and o. The vowel phonemes - /i, u, ?, and a/ can occur initially, medially and finally. Examples are - /i/ :- ( initial – /ica/ ‘eating’, /in/ ‘house’), (medial – /thi?/ ‘tree’, /ripal/ ‘flower’), (final - /ci/ ‘go’, /ni/ ‘I’), etc. The initial phonemes /e/ and /o/ can occur in rare.

Key words: vowel phonemes, description, occurrence, initial, medial and final.

Vowel Phonemes

‘Vowels are speech sounds made by shaping the oral cavity while allowing free passage of air from the lungs.’ (Sloat, et al. 1978)

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Angom Surjit Meitei, Ph.D. Student
Department of Linguistics
Manipur University
Imphal -795003
Manipur
India
asurjitmeitei@gmail.com
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