Moran language
Moran | |
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Native to | India |
Region | Assam |
Sino-Tibetan
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | None (mis ) |
qg1 | |
Glottolog | None |
Moran (Morān) is an extinct
Family
mother - aai
father - aabai
man - sadai
woman - saisi
boy - sadaira
girl - saisira
father's father - deuta
father's mother - aaboi
respected/friend - oi u
person - sadai
elder person - sadaira
Numerals
1 - Sē
2 - Ne
3 - Sām
4 - Biri
5 - Bāha
6 - Do
7 - Sini
8 - Sak
9 - Saku (zi-kho)
10 - Ti
History
According to the research W.B. Brown, the original language of the Morans was a
The Moran as well other Kacharis word for water is "Di", which apparently forms the first syllable of all major rivers of Upper Assam including Dibang, Disang, Dikhou, Dikrong, Dikarai, Dihing, Digaru, Difolu, Dimow, Disoi, and so on; this shows that the group were the dominant tribe in the entire region with their seat in Sadiya, the earliest known power and civilisation of Chutias. They were probably the eastern Kachari branch which became isolated during the ahom rule.[8]
Notes
- ^ Jacquesson 2017, p. 108: "I have recently been able to demonstrate that Gurdon’s dialect is a variety of Dimasa, since it retains all the features examined here: it has the same consonant clusters and diphthongs as Dimasa."
- ^ Jacquesson 2017, p. 108: "A second more dramatic example is P.R. Gurdon’s 1904 article 'The Morans' in the same journal. ... The census returned 78 speakers in 1901, 24 in 1911 and none in 1931. Gurdon’s article is thus the only source for this extinct language."
- ^ Gurdon, P. R. T. (1907). "The Morans". Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. 73 (1): 36.
- ^ In the early 13th century, the Moran territories were bounded by Buridhing on the north and Disang on the south
- ^ Saikia, Yasmin,Fragmented Memories: Struggling to be Tai-Ahom in India, p. 105
- ^ Endle 1911, p. 88.
- ^ Endle 1911, p. 87.
- ^ Endle 1911, p. 4.
References
- Endle, Sidney (1911). The Kacháris. Macmillan.
- Jacquesson, François (2017). "The linguistic reconstruction of the past The case of the Boro-Garo languages". Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area. 40 (1). Translated by van Breugel, Seino: 90–122. .
External links
- Moran at Brahmaputra Studies Database