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- Title
Phonological Adaptations of Some English Loanwords in Sylheti.
- Authors
Singha, Kh. Dhiren; Ahmed, Md. Isthaque
- Abstract
Sylheti is one of the dialects of Bengali which is mainly spoken in the Sylhet district of present Bangladesh. It is also spoken in the Northeastern part of India particularly in the Barak Valley of South Assam, Tripura, United Kingdom, United States and some of the Gulf countries in the Asian sub-continent. There are 11 million speakers of Sylheti throughout the globe, including 8,000,000 speakers in Bangladesh (Mikael, 2007). Like many other languages/dialects of the world, the contemporary Sylheti borrowed a large number of loanwords from English language in different semantic domains particularly name of objects, cultural, administrative, official, and technical terms to fulfill their day to day communication. However, when they borrow lexical items from English, lot of phonological changes has taken place to fit into the phonological structure of the Sylheti. So the present paper is a humble attempt to discuss the phonological adaptation of English loanwords in Sylheti spoken in Karimganj district of South Assam.
- Subjects
SYLHETI dialect; PHONOLOGY; ENGLISH grammar; SEMANTICS; LANGUAGE &; languages
- Publication
Language in India, 2016, Vol 16, Issue 7, p269
- ISSN
1930-2940
- Publication type
Article