A Comparative Linguistic Analysis of Sonowal ...

A Comparative Linguistic Analysis of Sonowal Kacharimese Language and Standard Assamese Language

Author Name : Ripu Kachari, Anjelika Saikia

DOI: https://doi.org/10.56025/IJARESM.2023.1201240244

ABSTRACT Linguistically, Assam is very diverse in nature with various ethnic communities having close affinities in the field of linguistic traits have been dwelling together since time immemorial. It is a home to many language belonging to the four language families viz. Indo-Arian, Tibeto-Burman, Asia-Austric and Dravidians .The Sonowal Kachari and Assamese language are not derived from the same source of the language family. The Sonowal Kachari language belongs to the Tibeto-Burman branch of the Sino-Tibetan family and the assamese language belongs to the Indo-European language family. There are many difference in phonology, morphology and also word formation of both language. This paper investigstes difference between the phonology, morphology and also word formation in the Sonowal Kacharimese (spoken Sonowal Kachari assamese) and standard Assamese language .