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- Title
Numerals in Hrangkhol.
- Authors
Helmi, Nawaf Zahdaan
- Abstract
The North-East region of India is known for its linguistic diversity and is home to the densest concentration of languages of the Tibeto-Burman family. More than a hundred Kuki-Chin languages are spoken in and around the seven North-Eastern states. Hrangkhol is a Kuki language of the Tibeto-Burman family spoken in Assam, Tripura, and parts of Manipur and Mizoram. The present paper proceeds from recent, extensive fieldwork and discusses the numeral system of the Hrangkhol language spoken in Assam. Numerals are expressions used in daily interactions to calculate, count objects, make measurements, or transmit data of any kind. Like most Tibeto-Burman languages, Hrangkhol also has a decimal numeral system. Higher numeral values are expressed by combining items of lower numeral values through addition or multiplication. In Hrangkhol, both suffixes and prefixes are added to the basic numerals to form different types of numerals. The numerals in Hrangkhol can be classified into cardinal, ordinal, multiplicative, fractional, distributive, restrictive, and approximate. Syntactically, the numerals usually follow the head noun, as in other SOV languages.
- Subjects
NUMERALS; KUKI-Chin languages; DECIMAL system; MULTIPLICATION; CARDINAL numbers
- Publication
Language in India, 2023, Vol 23, Issue 6, p69
- ISSN
1930-2940
- Publication type
Article