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Volume 14:9 September 2014
ISSN 1930-2940

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An Overview of the Phonological Elements of Assamese in Karbi

Dhanjoy Narzary, Ph.D. Scholar


Abstract

The linguistic sphere of North East India is full of diversity. The Assamese language is seen as predominant language of the north-east India. Assamese Language with its own script and literature has been considered as a universal language is widely used in Assam and its adjacent states of Nagaland and Arunachal Pradesh for a long time.

The Karbi is one of the predominant hill tribes of Assam. The language of this tribe is known as Karbi. Karbi belongs to the Tibeto-Burman group of Sino Tibetan language family. The Karbis are bilingual. They are seen to use the Karbi language while exchanging ideas among the people of their own tribe and in the social life. They use Assamese with the non-Karbis. They are equally proficient in using both the languages – Karbi and Assamese for spoken communication. Due to various factors such as co-habitation of Karbi and Assamese people, cultural interaction, the use of Assamese script, etc., the influence of Assamese on Karbi has been found more active. As a consequence, a lot of Assamese features are used in Karbi language. Various phonological, morphological and syntactic elements of Assamese are found to have entered the Karbi language. Here, an analysis is done regarding the phonological elements of Assamese available in Karbi.

Key words: Assamese, Karbi, phonological features of Assamese in Karbi

1. Introduction

Assam is considered a miniature India for its synthetic nature of culture and typical population structure which comprises of the representatives of some major races like Aryans, Dravidians, Austrics and Mongoloids, etc. Moreover, many of the tribes and sub-tribes of these races preserve their own customs, traditions and languages for which Assam is now considered a multilingual state. Thus, Assamese culture appears to be a composite culture of various elements of all these tribes and sub-tribes. The Karbi community is one such important hill tribe of Assam.


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Dhanjoy Narzary, Ph.D. Scholar
Assam University Silchar
Assam
India
dhanjoy2628@gmail.com

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