A SKETCH STUDY ON TENSE AND ASPECTS OF TAI-KHAMYANG

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Asiatic-IIUM Journal of English Language and Literature Pub Date : 2023-01-01 DOI:10.54513/joell.2023.10307

Sukanya Dutta

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Abstract

Tai-Khamyang is a critically threatened language of the Tai-Kadai or Daic group that belongs to the Sino-Tibetan language family. The spoken variety of Khamyang is only surviving in one remaining village Powaimukh. According to Ethnologue (ISO 639-3), there 800 ethnic populations are living all over Assam. According to Stephen Morey (2003), approximately only fifty (50) older adults use the language to communicate with each other. (Morey, 2018) During fieldwork, it was observed that there are only 4 to 5 people who can read and but there are very few people who can write the language.The proper use of the language is very low. This paper presents a brief sketch of tense and aspect in Tai-Khamyang, a variety of Tai Kadai language spoken by a very less number of people in Powaimukh village located in North East region District Tinsukia in the state of Assam. The paper begins with a brief introduction to the Tai-Khamyang language, which is followed by a descriptive analysis of the tense and aspects of the language.

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