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Anaphora and Pronominal Agreement in VaipheiOctober 25th, 2021
The Vaiphei is a Northern Kuki language of the Tibeto-Burman Kuki-Chin sub-family of languages. This North-Eastern language is majorly spoken in the Churachandpur district of Manipur, and in pockets of Assam, Meghalaya, Mizoram, and Nagaland, as well as in the Kabaw Valley and Chin State of Myanmar. Vaiphei is one of the 100 non-scheduled languages in India and an endangered North-eastern language (2011 census data) and this language is written with roman script. According to Census-2011, the total population of Vaiphei speakers in India is 42,748, including 21,343 males and 21,405 females. Moreover, Vaiphei is also the name of the tribe who speaks this language. The basic word order of Vaiphei is SOV/SV, with agglutinative morpho-syntactic structure and syllable structure (C)V(V)(V)(C) / T. In this language, there are distinct forms of personal pronouns [i.e. /kei/ (1st), / naŋ/ (2nd) etc.] as well as there are distinct pronominal agreement markers [i.e. /ka/ (1st), /la/ (2nd), / aʔ /
