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- Title
Number System in Simte.
- Authors
Kapginlian, H.
- Abstract
Simte is one of the Kuki-Chin languages spoken mostly in Churachandpur and Pherzawl districts of Manipur. The Simte language falls under the Northern Kuki-Chin subgroups of the Tibeto-Burman language family. It is one of the endangered languages among the minor tribes of Manipur. As with the other Kuki-Chin languages, this language exhibits a pronoun dropping, and possesses the SOV order as its sentential construction. This paper attempts to discuss the three divisions of numbers in Simte, namely, singular, dual and plural. Besides this, it explores how dual morpheme '-te' and plural morpheme '-gel' are suffixed to the noun or noun phrase. One significant number system found in this language is that plurality is also expressed by reduplication of nouns, interrogative pronouns and adjectives. The number system of the said language has been illustrated with suitable examples in the paper.
- Subjects
MANIPUR (India); SIMTE language; LANGUAGE &; languages; NUMBER systems; COMMUNICATION; LINGUISTICS
- Publication
Language in India, 2023, Vol 23, Issue 12, p15
- ISSN
1930-2940
- Publication type
Article