A Study On Compounds Of Bodo And Assamese Languages

Abstract

Linguistically, the Bodo belongs to the Tibeto-Burman branch of the Sino-Tibetan language family. It is a major language of the Bodo group under the Assam Burmese group of language. The speakers of Bodo language scattered all over the Assam, North Bengal and East Bengal in some part of Nepal, Arunachal Pradesh and Nagaland. This language is linguistically connected with Bodo, Garo, Rabha, Dimasa, Kokborok, Tiwa, Deuri etc. On the other hand, Assamese is an Eastern Indo-Aryan language spoken mainly in the Indian state of Assam. It is an official language of Assam. The Assamese language is belonging to the Indo-European group of the Indo-Aryan family of language. This paper attempts to analyze the compound reduplication of Bodo and Assamese languages. Compound is a word formation process. In Bodo and Assamese languages compound reduplication is very productive process of word formation.