{"title":"PRONOUNS IN SUNWAR","authors":"Ibtesam Ahmed, Prof. S. Ganesh Baskaran","doi":"10.54513/joell.2023.10305","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Sunwar (ISO 639-3 suz) belongs to the Sino-Tibetan language of Tibeto-Burman language family of Kiranti branch of Himalayan group. The present paper will concentrate on pronouns in Sunwar. Sunwars are the smallest and lesser known ethnic community of Sikkim. The pronouns are one of the basic features of a language. Pronouns are frequently used in conversations but it is less explored than any other linguistic feature of a language. Sunwar possesses a great wealth of varieties of pronouns which includes personal pronouns, demonstrative pronouns, interrogative pronouns, relative pronouns, reflexive pronouns, indefinite pronouns. The data has been collected from the state of Sikkim mainly from the east, west and south region and cross checked by the native speakers of the language from different age groups (40 to 70). Apart from the primary data some secondary sources are also used to gather information. The speakers of the Sunwar language have switched to speaking Nepali, which is the official language of Sikkim State, putting the language at the risk of extinction. This paper is a small effort to document the language for the recent and future generation of the language speakers and researchers.","PeriodicalId":42230,"journal":{"name":"Asiatic-IIUM Journal of English Language and Literature","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3000,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Asiatic-IIUM Journal of English Language and Literature","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.54513/joell.2023.10305","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"LITERATURE","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Sunwar (ISO 639-3 suz) belongs to the Sino-Tibetan language of Tibeto-Burman language family of Kiranti branch of Himalayan group. The present paper will concentrate on pronouns in Sunwar. Sunwars are the smallest and lesser known ethnic community of Sikkim. The pronouns are one of the basic features of a language. Pronouns are frequently used in conversations but it is less explored than any other linguistic feature of a language. Sunwar possesses a great wealth of varieties of pronouns which includes personal pronouns, demonstrative pronouns, interrogative pronouns, relative pronouns, reflexive pronouns, indefinite pronouns. The data has been collected from the state of Sikkim mainly from the east, west and south region and cross checked by the native speakers of the language from different age groups (40 to 70). Apart from the primary data some secondary sources are also used to gather information. The speakers of the Sunwar language have switched to speaking Nepali, which is the official language of Sikkim State, putting the language at the risk of extinction. This paper is a small effort to document the language for the recent and future generation of the language speakers and researchers.
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Asiatic is the very first international journal on English writings by Asian writers and writers of Asian origin, currently being the only one of its kind. It aims to publish high-quality researches and outstanding creative works combining the broad fields of literature and linguistics on the same intellectual platform. Asiatic will contain a rich collection of selected articles on issues that deal with Asian Englishes, Asian cultures and Asian literatures in English, including diasporic literature and Asian literatures in translation. Articles may include studies that address the multidimensional impacts of the English Language on a wide variety of Asian cultures (South Asian, East Asian, Southeast Asian and others). Subjects of debates and discussions will encompass the socio-economic facet of the Asian world in relation to current academic investigations on literature, culture and linguistics. This approach will present the works of English-trained Asian writers and scholars, having English as the unifying device and Asia as a fundamental backdrop of their study. The three different segments that will be featured in each issue of Asiatic are: (i) critical writings on literary, cultural and linguistics studies, (ii) creative writings that include works of prose fiction and selections of poetry and (iv) review articles on Asian books, novels and plays produced in English (or translated into English). These works will reflect how elements of western and Asian are both subtly and intensely intertwined as a result of acculturation, globalisation and such.
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