The Naga Language Groups Within the Tibeto-Burman Language Family
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A Comparative Study of Angami and Chakhesang Women
A SOCIOLOGICAL STUDY OF UNEMPLOYMENT PROBLEM : A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF ANGAMI AND CHAKHESANG WOMEN THESIS SUBMITTED FOR THE DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY IN SOCIOLOGY SCHOOL OF SOCIAL SCIENCES NAGALAND UNIVERSITY BY MEDONUO PIENYÜ Ph. D. REGISTRATION NO. 357/ 2008 UNDER THE SUPERVISION OF PROF. KSHETRI RAJENDRA SINGH DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY NAGALAND UNIVERSITY H.Qs. LUMAMI, NAGALAND, INDIA NOVEMBER 2013 I would like to dedicate this thesis to my Mother Mrs. Mhasivonuo Pienyü who never gave up on me and supported me through the most difficult times of my life. NAGALAND UNIVERSITY (A Central University Estd. By the Act of Parliament No 35 of 1989) Headquaters- Lumami P.O. Mokokchung- 798601 Department of Sociology Ref. No……………. Date………………. CERTIFICATE This is certified that I have supervised and gone through the entire pages of the Ph.D. thesis entitled “A Sociological Study of Unemployment Problem: A Comparative Study of Angami and Chakhesang Women” submitted by Medonuo Pienyü. This is further certified that this research work of Medonuo Pienyü, carried out under my supervision is her original work and has not been submitted for any degree to any other university or institute. Supervisor Place: (Prof. Kshetri Rajendra Singh) Date: Department of Sociology, Nagaland University Hqs: Lumami DECLARATION The Nagaland University November, 2013. I, Miss. Medonuo Pienyü, hereby declare that the contents of this thesis is the record of my work done and the subject matter of this thesis did not form the basis of the award of any previous degree to me or to the best of my knowledge to anybody else, and that thesis has not been submitted by me for any research degree in any other university/ institute. -
Dept of English Tripura University Faculty Profile Name
Dept of English Tripura University Faculty Profile Name: Kshetrimayum Premchandra (PhD) Designation: Assistant Professor Academic Qualification: BA (Hindu College, Delhi University), MA, PhD (Manipur University) Subjects Taught: Northeast (Indian) Literatures, Drama (Performance Theory), Folklore Mail: [email protected], [email protected] Landline/Intercom: +91 381237-9445 Fax: 03812374802 Mobile: +91 9436780234 1. List of publications as chapters, proceedings and articles in books and journals S. ISBN/ISSN No Title with page nos. Book/Journal No . Law of the Mother: The Mothers of Maya Spectrum, June, 2014, Vol. 2, ISSN 2319-6076 1 Diip, , pp. 12-18 Issue 1 Blood, Bullet, Bomb, and Voices in the Spectrum, June, 2015, Vol. 3, ISSN 2319-6076 2 The Sound of Khongji, pp. 11-18 Issue 1, The Hanndmaid’s Tale: The Curse of Spectrum, July- Vol. 3, Issue 2, ISSN 2319-6076 3 Being ‘Fertile’, pp. 19-27 Dec., 2015, Transcript, Bodoland 4 Place of Ougri in Meitei Lai Haraoba ISSN 2347-1743 University. Vol III, pp. 81-89 Of Pilgrims and Savages in the Heart of ISSN 2319-6076 5 Spectrum Darkness Journal of Literature and Incest and Gender Bias in the Tripuri Cultural Studies, Mizoram 6 ISSN 2348-1188 Folktale “Chethuang” University. Vol V, Issue II, Dec. 2018. Pp. 87-98. Nationalist Thought and the ISBN 978-93- “Death Journey: The Nigger of the Colonial World, 7 81142-92-9 ‘Narcissus’”, pp. 126-136. Ram Sharma et. al., New Delhi: Mangalam Publications Manipuri Dance and Culture: An Anthology. The Notions of Manipuri Identity, ISBN 978-81- 8 Ed. Adhikarimayum pp. 160-181. -
Some Principles of the Use of Macro-Areas Language Dynamics &A
Online Appendix for Harald Hammarstr¨om& Mark Donohue (2014) Some Principles of the Use of Macro-Areas Language Dynamics & Change Harald Hammarstr¨om& Mark Donohue The following document lists the languages of the world and their as- signment to the macro-areas described in the main body of the paper as well as the WALS macro-area for languages featured in the WALS 2005 edi- tion. 7160 languages are included, which represent all languages for which we had coordinates available1. Every language is given with its ISO-639-3 code (if it has one) for proper identification. The mapping between WALS languages and ISO-codes was done by using the mapping downloadable from the 2011 online WALS edition2 (because a number of errors in the mapping were corrected for the 2011 edition). 38 WALS languages are not given an ISO-code in the 2011 mapping, 36 of these have been assigned their appropri- ate iso-code based on the sources the WALS lists for the respective language. This was not possible for Tasmanian (WALS-code: tsm) because the WALS mixes data from very different Tasmanian languages and for Kualan (WALS- code: kua) because no source is given. 17 WALS-languages were assigned ISO-codes which have subsequently been retired { these have been assigned their appropriate updated ISO-code. In many cases, a WALS-language is mapped to several ISO-codes. As this has no bearing for the assignment to macro-areas, multiple mappings have been retained. 1There are another couple of hundred languages which are attested but for which our database currently lacks coordinates. -
Vowel Harmony in Chiru Mechek Sampar Awan, Ph.D
================================================================= Language in India www.languageinindia.com ISSN 1930-2940 Vol. 17:7 July 2017 UGC Approved List of Journals Serial Number 49042 ================================================================ Vowel Harmony in Chiru Mechek Sampar Awan, Ph.D. Scholar ================================================= Abstract This paper is an attempt to describe vowel harmony in Chiru. Chiru is an endangered Kuki-Chin language of Tibeto-Burman language family (Grierson 1904) spoken by 8599 speakers (Census of India: 2011). Harmony is a term used in phonology to refer to the way the articulation of one phonological unit is influenced by another unit in the same word or phrase (Crystal 1997). An analogous notion is that of assimilation. The two main processes are consonant harmony and vowel harmony. Interestingly vowel harmony is found only in a few languages among Kuki-Chin groups, viz., Biate, Chiru etc. Most of the Kuki-Chin languages like Thadou, do not have vowel harmony. The vowel harmony in Chiru mainly occurs in pronominal prefixes and genitives of the first and third persons, causative prefixes, numeral prefixes and a few disyllabic words. This phonological process in Chiru is due to the regressive assimilation of vowels in which the vowel phoneme in the first syllable is influenced by the vowel phoneme in the following syllable to become identical to each other in a word. Keywords: Chiru, Kuki-Chin, Vowel harmony Introduction Chiru, the language spoken by the Chiru people, belongs to the Kuki-Chin group of the Tibeto-Burman language family (Grierson 1904). Chiru is one of the thirty-three recognised tribal languages of Manipur. The total population of Chiru speakers is only 8599 (census of India: 2011). -
7=SINO-INDIAN Phylosector
7= SINO-INDIAN phylosector Observatoire Linguistique Linguasphere Observatory page 525 7=SINO-INDIAN phylosector édition princeps foundation edition DU RÉPERTOIRE DE LA LINGUASPHÈRE 1999-2000 THE LINGUASPHERE REGISTER 1999-2000 publiée en ligne et mise à jour dès novembre 2012 published online & updated from November 2012 This phylosector comprises 22 sets of languages spoken by communities in eastern Asia, from the Himalayas to Manchuria (Heilongjiang), constituting the Sino-Tibetan (or Sino-Indian) continental affinity. See note on nomenclature below. 70= TIBETIC phylozone 71= HIMALAYIC phylozone 72= GARIC phylozone 73= KUKIC phylozone 74= MIRIC phylozone 75= KACHINIC phylozone 76= RUNGIC phylozone 77= IRRAWADDIC phylozone 78= KARENIC phylozone 79= SINITIC phylozone This continental affinity is composed of two major parts: the disparate Tibeto-Burman affinity (zones 70= to 77=), spoken by relatively small communities (with the exception of 77=) in the Himalayas and adjacent regions; and the closely related Chinese languages of the Sinitic set and net (zone 79=), spoken in eastern Asia. The Karen languages of zone 78=, formerly considered part of the Tibeto-Burman grouping, are probably best regarded as a third component of Sino-Tibetan affinity. Zone 79=Sinitic includes the outer-language with the largest number of primary voices in the world, representing the most populous network of contiguous speech-communities at the end of the 20th century ("Mainstream Chinese" or so- called 'Mandarin', standardised under the name of Putonghua). This phylosector is named 7=Sino-Indian (rather than Sino-Tibetan) to maintain the broad geographic nomenclature of all ten sectors of the linguasphere, composed of the names of continental or sub-continental entities. -
Morphological Analyzer for Kokborok
Morphological Analyzer for Kokborok Khumbar Debbarma1 Braja Gopal Patra2 Dipankar Das3 Sivaji Bandyopadhyay2 (1) TRIPURA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, Agartala, India (2) JADAVPUR UNIVERSITY, Kolkata, India (3) NATIONAL INSTITUTE_OF TECHNOLOGY, Meghalaya, India [email protected], [email protected], [email protected],[email protected] ABSTRACT Morphological analysis is concerned with retrieving the syntactic and morphological properties or the meaning of a morphologically complex word. Morphological analysis retrieves the grammatical features and properties of an inflected word. However, this paper introduces the design and implementation of a Morphological Analyzer for Kokborok, a resource constrained and less computerized Indian language. A database driven affix stripping algorithm has been used to design the Morphological Analyzer. It analyzes the Kokborok word forms and produces several grammatical information associated with the words. The Morphological Analyzer for Kokborok has been tested on 56732 Kokborok words; thereby an accuracy of 80% has been obtained on a manual check. KEYWORDS : Morphology Analyzer, Kokborok, Dictionary, Stemmer, Prefix, Suffix. Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on South and Southeast Asian Natural Language Processing (SANLP), pages 41–52, COLING 2012, Mumbai, December 2012. 41 1 Introduction Kokborok is the native language of Tripura and is also spoken in the neighboring states like Assam, Manipur, Mizoram as well as the countries like Bangladesh, Myanmar etc., comprising of more than 2.5 millions1 of people. Kokborok belongs to the Tibeto-Burman (TB) language falling under the Sino language family of East Asia and South East Asia2. Kokborok shares the genetic features of TB languages that include phonemic tone, widespread stem homophony, subject- object-verb (SOV) word order, agglutinative verb morphology, verb derivational suffixes originating from the semantic bleaching of verbs, duplication or elaboration. -
The Cultural Politics of Proxy-Voting in Nagaland
TIF - The Cultural Politics of Proxy-Voting in Nagaland JELLE J P WOUTERS June 7, 2019 RODERICK WIJUNAMAI Voters in Kohima, Nagaland | PIB Photo Nagaland’s voter turnouts are often the highest in the country, and it may be so this time around as well. But why was the citizenry of Nagaland so keen to vote for their lone, largely ineffectual representative in the Lok Sabha? Of all truisms about democracy, one that is held to be particularly true is that any democracy’s vitality and verve depends on its voter turnouts during elections. As the acclaimed political and social theorist Steven Lukes (1975: 304) concluded long ago: “Participation in elections can plausibly be interpreted as the symbolic affirmation of the voters’ acceptance of the political system and of their role within it.” Indian democracy thence draws special attention; not just for its trope of being the world’s largest democracy (Indian voters make up roughly one-sixth of the world’s electorate) but for the democratic and electoral effervescence reported all across the country. While a disenchantment with democratic institutions and politics is now clearly discernible in large swathes of the so-called “West” and finds its reflection in declining voter turnouts, to the point almost where a minority of citizens elect majority governments, India experiences no such democratic fatigue. Here voter turnouts are not just consistently high, but continue to increase and now habitually outdo those of much older democracies elsewhere. And if India’s official voter turnouts are already high, they might well be a low estimate still. -
Indian Hieroglyphs
Indian hieroglyphs Indus script corpora, archaeo-metallurgy and Meluhha (Mleccha) Jules Bloch’s work on formation of the Marathi language (Bloch, Jules. 2008, Formation of the Marathi Language. (Reprint, Translation from French), New Delhi, Motilal Banarsidass. ISBN: 978-8120823228) has to be expanded further to provide for a study of evolution and formation of Indian languages in the Indian language union (sprachbund). The paper analyses the stages in the evolution of early writing systems which began with the evolution of counting in the ancient Near East. Providing an example from the Indian Hieroglyphs used in Indus Script as a writing system, a stage anterior to the stage of syllabic representation of sounds of a language, is identified. Unique geometric shapes required for tokens to categorize objects became too large to handle to abstract hundreds of categories of goods and metallurgical processes during the production of bronze-age goods. In such a situation, it became necessary to use glyphs which could distinctly identify, orthographically, specific descriptions of or cataloging of ores, alloys, and metallurgical processes. About 3500 BCE, Indus script as a writing system was developed to use hieroglyphs to represent the ‘spoken words’ identifying each of the goods and processes. A rebus method of representing similar sounding words of the lingua franca of the artisans was used in Indus script. This method is recognized and consistently applied for the lingua franca of the Indian sprachbund. That the ancient languages of India, constituted a sprachbund (or language union) is now recognized by many linguists. The sprachbund area is proximate to the area where most of the Indus script inscriptions were discovered, as documented in the corpora. -
1 District Census Handbook-Churachandpur
DISTRICT CENSUS HANDBOOK-CHURACHANDPUR 1 DISTRICT CENSUS HANDBOOK-CHURACHANDPUR 2 DISTRICT CENSUSHANDBOOK-CHURACHANDPUR T A M T E MANIPUR S N A G T E L C CHURACHANDPUR DISTRICT I O L N R G 5 0 5 10 C T SENAPATI A T D I S T R I DISTRICT S H I B P Kilpmetres D To Ningthoukhong M I I From From Jiribam Nungba S M iver H g R n Ira N A r e U iv k R ta P HENGLEP ma Lei S Churachandpur District has 10 C.D./ T.D. Blocks. Tipaimukh R U Sub - Division has 2 T.D. Blocks as Tipaimukh and Vangai Range. Thanlon T.D. Block is co-terminus with the Thanlon r R e Sub-Diovision. Henglep T.D. Block is co-terminus with the v S i r e R v Churachandpur North Sub-Division. Churachandpur Sub- i i R C H U R A C H A N D P U R N O R T H To Imphal u l Division has 5 T.D. Blocks as Lamka,Tuibong, Saikot, L u D L g Sangaikot and Samulamlan. Singngat T.D. Block is co- l S U B - D I V I S I O N I S n p T i A a terminus with the Singngat Sub-Division. j u i R T u INDIAT NH 2 r I e v i SH CHURACHANDPUR C R k TUIBONG ra T a RENGKAI (C T) 6! ! BIJANG ! B G ! P HILL TOWN (C T) ! ZENHANG LAMKA (C T) 6 G! 6 3 M T H A N L O N CCPUR H.Q. -
Ethnic History and Identity of the Zo Tribes in North East India
Journal of North East India Studies Vol. 5(1), Jan.-Jun. 2015, pp. 39-50. Ethnic History and Identity of the Zo Tribes in North East India H. Thangtungnung North East India is a hotspot of identity crisis and ethnic divisions. The Chin, Kuki, Zomi and Mizo tribes who are collectively known as Zo people are no exception. They have close cultural, lingual and religious affinities and a com- mon ancestor called Zo. Historically, they have different theories of origin and migration based on their folklores, folktales and songs narrated down from one generation to another. The different origin theories like the Khul/Chhinlung or Cave origin theory, Chin Hills origin theory and Lost tribe (Manmasi) theory are among the most significant theories so far which speak, to some extent, some- thing about their history and origin. Of late, the Lost Tribe theory has gained momentum which claims that the Zo tribes are among the ten lost tribes of Israel, particularly from the tribe of Manasseh. Israeli Chief Rabbi Shlomo Amar had recognised them as descendents of Israel in 2005, which was also approved by the Israeli government. Many have consequently immigrated to the ‘Holy Land’. In this backdrop, this paper is attempts to critically analyse and assess the ethnic origin of the Zo people with special reference to the lost tribe theory. Based on cultural and oral traditions, and Biblical sources, it also attempts to support that the Zo people are the ten lost tribe of Israel by substantiating various arguments to validate this origin theory. Keywords: Zo, Khul origin theory, Chin Hills theory, Lost tribe, Manmasi Introduction The Zo people are indigenous tribes of Manipur and Mizoram in Northeast India, Bangladesh and Chin State of Myanmar. -
ABSTRACT the Present Research Work Entitled "Phonology And
ABSTRACT The present research work entitled "Phonology and Morphology of Liangmai”, focuses on Phonology and Morphology of Liangmai, which mainly spoken in some parts of Manipur and Nagaland States in Northeast India. Liangmai is one of the constituent tribe of Zeliangrong within the generic term called “Naga”. The term Zeliangrong consisits of Zeme, Liangmai and Rongmei. This is the combination of the first syllable of the three tribes, i.e. Ze from Zeme, Liang from Liangmai and Rong from Rongmei (Ze+Liang+Rong=Zeliangrong). It is a name of an organization formed by the fusion of these three tribes scattered in Manipur and Nagaland. Like many other Naga tribes, Zeliangrong belongs to Tibeto-Burman language family. Liangmai language is one of the 33 languages recognized by the Government of Manipur. According to Grierson LSI (1903) classified Liangmai under the Kuki-Chin- Naga sub-group of the Tibeto Burman family. Liangmai is spoken in Tamenglong district particularly in the Headquater, Tousem and Tamei Sub-division also in Senapati District i.e. Kangpokpi, Supermania and Tadubi of Manipur. They are also found in Nagaland State particularly in Tening Sub-division, Jalukie, Peren, Dimapur and Kohima (Liangmai and Zeme are referred to collectively as Zeliang in Nagaland). This language is linguistically closer to Maram, Poumai, Ruangmei and Zeme which are spoken in same region. There is no evidence of existence of writing system among the Liangmai‟s in the past. However, the richness of their oral tradition (history, songs, sayings, chants, etc.) orally handed down from generation to generation. It was the Britishers, who first introduce the system of education and writing to the Liangmai. -
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