LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 15:2 February 2015
ISSN 1930-2940

Managing Editor: M. S. Thirumalai, Ph.D.
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Gender in Anal: A Preliminary Investigation

Th. Thajamanbi Devi, Ph.D. Research Scholar

Abstract

Anal is a language as well as name of a community inhabiting the South Eastern, North and Western parts of Manipur and in the border areas of neighboring country like Myanmar. Anal is one of the thirty-three recognized scheduled tribes of Manipur with a total population of 13,853 according to the 2001 Census of India. The present paper attempts to describe the gender marking systems in Anal, a Kuki-Chin language mainly spoken in Chandel district of Manipur.

Key words: Anal language, Kuki-Chin languages, Manipur

1. Introduction

Anal is the name of a language, the group of people who speak the language. It is one of the undocumented endangered languages of Manipur (Moseley, 2009). Linguistically, Anal belongs to Mizo-Kuki-Chin of the Tibeto-Burman language family (Burling, 2003). It has close affinities with Laizoand Malsom languages (Gordon, 2005). It is mainly spoken in the Chandel, Churachandpur and Thoubal districts of Manipur with a total population of 13,853 according to the 2001 census of India. Like many other Kuki-Chin languages, it has no indigenous script. However Roman script has been adopted to write their language with some modifications. Similarly, the language is not being taught in schools as a medium of instruction or a subject.

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Thounaojam Thajamanbi Devi, Ph.D. Research Scholar
Department of Linguistics
Assam University
Silchar - 788011
Assam
India
thambidevi@gmail.com
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