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Compounding in Gangte

Letkhosei Seiboy Touthang and
H. Surmangol Sharma

Abstract

This paper attempts to discuss Compounding in Gangte, a Tibeto-Burman language of the Kuki-Chin subgroup spoken by around 21,813 (Thurgood 2003) speakers of northeast India. This paper discusses three types of compounding: Endocentric, Exocentric and Conjunctive Compounds in Gangte. Compound words in Gangte are mostly endocentric in nature.

Keywords: Compounding, Gangte, Kuki-Chin

1. Introduction

Gangte (ISO 639-3:gnb) is a Kuki-Chin language of the Northern Kuki-Chin group of Tibeto Burman group (Thurgood 2003). Accorded recognition in 1956, Gangte is one of the recognized tribes of Indian Union. They are found in the North-eastern part of India, particularly in the States of Manipur, Nagaland, and Mizoram with a population of 21,813 speakers approximately. In the state of Manipur, they are found distributed in 80 villages where their main population concentrates in Cheingkonpang of Churachandpur which lies about 52 km from the state capital, Imphal.

The word order is Subject-Object-Verb (SOV). It is an agglutinative language.

2. Compounding

Compounding is a morphological process that fuses two or more words, yielding one independent word. In other words, it is a combination of two free forms or words that have an otherwise independent existence.

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Letkhosei Seiboy Touthang
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seiboytouthang@gmail.com

H. Surmangol Sharma
Assoc. Professor
Surmangol@yahoo.co.in

Department of Linguistics
Manipur University Canchipur, 795002, India
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