Asian Journal of Research in Social Sciences and Humanities
Year : 2013, Volume : 3, Issue : 2
First page : ( 308) Last page : ( 318)
Print ISSN : 0000-0000. Online ISSN : 2249-7315.

Gender in the turung and aiton language: A contrastive study

Gogoi Nabami

Asstt. Professor, Dept. of Assamese (Group-Language), Golaghat Commerce College

Online published on 7 February, 2013.

Abstract

The Turung and the Aitons living in Assam are Mongoloid. Linguistically though they belong to the same language family, a few differences in the cultural and social life since they migrated to Assam at various periods of times. On the other hand, differences relating to language are also noticed among these tribes. This study proposes to analyse the differences in their forms through the contrastive study of gender and number of these languages. The study will help towards the Turung and the Aiton languages acquiring a written form and their preservation as these languages now only exist in colloquial forms

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Keywords

Turung, Aitons.

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