Review of "A grammar of Mongsen Ao"
This splendid grammar describes the variety of Ao Naga spoken in Mangmetong ("Upright Corpse‟), a village of about 2000 people in Mokokchung District of Nagaland. The Ao are the dominant tribe of Nagaland, with a population of over 170,000, divided into two major dialect groups. Chungli,...
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| description | This splendid grammar describes the variety of Ao Naga spoken in Mangmetong
("Upright Corpse‟), a village of about 2000 people in Mokokchung District of
Nagaland. The Ao are the dominant tribe of Nagaland, with a population of over
170,000, divided into two major dialect groups. Chungli, spoken by about 50% of
the Ao, has greater prestige, and is always used in church services; Mongsen, to
which the Mangmetong subdialect belongs, is spoken by 40%, while 10% speak
other dialects.1 As with many other Tibeto-Burman (TB) groups like Nungish or
Tangkhulic, Ao shows great dialectal variation from village to village, so that the
safest way to identify a dialect is by a loconym, or village name. Ao is not really
endangered at present, although it is facing increasing competition from
Nagamese, the Indo-Aryan based pidgin widely used for inter-group
communication in Nagaland. |
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| spelling | ntu-10356/1777022024-06-03T07:19:11Z Review of "A grammar of Mongsen Ao" Matisoff, James A. University of California, Berkeley Arts and Humanities This splendid grammar describes the variety of Ao Naga spoken in Mangmetong ("Upright Corpse‟), a village of about 2000 people in Mokokchung District of Nagaland. The Ao are the dominant tribe of Nagaland, with a population of over 170,000, divided into two major dialect groups. Chungli, spoken by about 50% of the Ao, has greater prestige, and is always used in church services; Mongsen, to which the Mangmetong subdialect belongs, is spoken by 40%, while 10% speak other dialects.1 As with many other Tibeto-Burman (TB) groups like Nungish or Tangkhulic, Ao shows great dialectal variation from village to village, so that the safest way to identify a dialect is by a loconym, or village name. Ao is not really endangered at present, although it is facing increasing competition from Nagamese, the Indo-Aryan based pidgin widely used for inter-group communication in Nagaland. Published version 2024-06-03T07:19:11Z 2024-06-03T07:19:11Z 2011 Journal Article Matisoff, J. A. (2011). Review of "A grammar of Mongsen Ao". Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area, 34(1), 119-133. https://dx.doi.org/10.32655/LTBA.34.1.04 0731-3500 https://hdl.handle.net/10356/177702 10.32655/LTBA.34.1.04 1 34 119 133 en Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area © 2011 The Editor(s). All rights reserved. application/pdf |
| spellingShingle | Arts and Humanities Matisoff, James A. Review of "A grammar of Mongsen Ao" |
| title | Review of "A grammar of Mongsen Ao" |
| title_full | Review of "A grammar of Mongsen Ao" |
| title_fullStr | Review of "A grammar of Mongsen Ao" |
| title_full_unstemmed | Review of "A grammar of Mongsen Ao" |
| title_short | Review of "A grammar of Mongsen Ao" |
| title_sort | review of a grammar of mongsen ao |
| topic | Arts and Humanities |
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