Syllable Structure and Syllabification in Koireng
| Authors |
| Julia Yumnam & Guigongpou Gonmei |
| Date of Publication: December, 2024 |
| Volume: XXIII, No.- XXVI |
| Abstract |
| Syllable plays a crucial role in the phonological study of a language. It also plays an important role in organizing the strings of segments in a language. Koireng belongs to the Old Kuki of the Kuki-Chin Group of the Tibeto Burman language family (Grierson,1904). The total population of Koireng is 1873 (Census, 2011). Koireng is an endangered language, so the language needs to be studied to promote and preserve it as per NEP 2020. There are some literatures on Koireng, “Koireng Grammar” (Singh, 2010) and “A Descriptive Grammar of Sadu Koireng” (Devi, W. 2013), where the authors mentioned the types of syllables in the language, but neither of them has analyzed the syllabification process. So, this paper will be the first work on the detailed analysis of Koireng’s syllable and syllabification process using Clements and Keyser’s (1983) CV Phonology. The paper attempts to use the Maximum Onset Principle (MOP). It also aims to study whether the language follows the Sonority Sequencing Principle (SSP). |
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