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Volume 13:11 November 2013
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Affixation in Liangmai

Guichamlung Daimai, Ph.D. Research Scholar

1.0 Introduction

Liangmai belongs to the mongoloid group of race and speak the Tibeto-Burman languages. Liangmai language is one of the 33 languages recognized by the government of Manipur. Liangmai spoken by around 34,000 is a Tibeto-Burman language spoken in Tamenglong District of Manipur and parts of Nagaland. The language belongs to the Kuki-Chin-Naga sub-group of the Tibeto-Burman family (Grierson 1903). However, Burling 2003 grouped it under Zeme group along with Zeme and Rongmei.

Jaimie Saul of Gauteng, a South African scholar, mentioned that the Hamai (Zeliangrong ancestors) traveled to Chawangphungning from Ramtingkabin, before they reached Makuiluangdi. Here they dwelt for a long time. After the population increased so much, reaching the mark of 7777 household, the village was divided into areas of settlement sectors:-north, south and central sector. From here they began to divide among themselves and called them separately as Zeme, Liangmai, Rongmei and Puimei. There are different versions of how they got names based on folk tales and folklores and some songs.

1.2 Affixes

Affixes are bound morphemes which can only occur by attached to a root. It is a kind of strategy for the formation of word. Prefixation and Suffixation are very common principle in the Liangmai language. But Infixation is not found in Liangmai. In this language, which is an agglutinative language, affixes are very important as they take part in the formation of various words and in deriving several word classes, namely, verb, noun, adjective and adverb. The two types of affixes found in Liangmai are prefix and suffix which are discussed below.

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Guichamlung Daimai, Ph.D. Research Scholar
Department of Linguistics
Assam University
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Assam
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