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A DESCRIPTIVE ANALYSIS OF YERAVA
Bhumij
:
O
with inanimate object
i
with animatei object.
Mundari and Bhumij have two different present tense markers.
3.2.3.
Future tense
Mundari and Bhumij have two future tense markers each, but the markers are different.
Mundari (Sinha : 1975)
O
simple future
anterior future
anterior future
Bhumij:
ga
intransitive future
e
transitive futuree
4.
WORDS
4.1
The words in Mundari (Cook : 1965) and Bhumij have phonetic and phonological differences as shown below:
Mundari
Bhumij
uru’
u
u
‘to think’
bu
bu?u
‘to bark’
dubm
dub
‘to sit’
č
aba
č
haba
‘to finish’
da
i
d
h
a
i
‘be able’
besE
bes
‘good’
maran
mara
ŋ
‘big’
si
i
si
i
ladder;
kanda
k
h
undi
‘room’
je
e’
je
e
'sunshine'
payka
po
ŋ
k
h
a
‘fan’
hoyo
h
y
'wind'
4.2
There are also lexical differences as shown below:
pura?
sa
ŋ
gi
‘many’
o
o?o
ar
‘and’
ganta
akn
č
i
‘basket’
ganda
a
o
‘and’
ganta
akn
č
i
‘basket’
ganda
a
o
‘finger’
sa
ak
s
p
‘road’
ma
a
go?eho
omo
‘corpse’
mejE
tebul
'tebul '
et’war
r
ibar
‘Sunday’
na’jom
aha
¸
i
‘witch’
ba’
č
om
bayar
‘rope’
eton
utcr
'answer'
5.
CONCLUSION
Structurally, Bhumij is dfferent from Mundari as shown below:
1. Phonology of Bhumij is different from Mundhari
2. Number marking in noun is obligatory in Bhumij but it is not in Mundari.
3. Numerals of Bhumij is different from Mundari.
4. The two causative suffixes of Mundari, iri and riko are absent in Bhumij.
5. The transitive past tense markers l and k are not available in Mundari.
6. Aspects like ta?t, ja?t, le?t etc., of Bhumij are not available in Mundari.
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