Tone in Mao
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Abstract
Mao belongs to Tibeto-Burman language family, spoken mainly in the Senapati district of Manipur, North Eastern region of India. Mao is a Subject, Object, Verb (SOV) word-order language. This language is not much studied so far. This paper attempts to study the tone system in Mao with the help of tone category put forward by Pike (1948), established the tone by analysis from Mao we find that there are two tones viz; contrastive tones and variation of tones.
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How to Cite
Adaphro, M. (2014). Tone in Mao. The International Journal of Humanities & Social Studies, 2(3). Retrieved from http://internationaljournalcorner.com/index.php/theijhss/article/view/140064