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yv ituyvi ‘be very tall’
Three Consonant Clusters

tpl

totplak ‘sit alone (stout, weak person)’

tphr

  totphro ‘sit (more than two persons)’

kphl

lokphlan ‘be white completely’

mpl

plimplam ‘a fruit’

mphl

numphlak ‘ladle’

mpr

damprapjin ‘go fast (naturally)’

mkl

phankri kethe ‘a village leader who looks
    after guests’
phl dophlot ‘slip on foot’
kl ani arokla ‘be happy in heart’
pr  iprim ‘needle’
thr bathrok ‘six persons’
kr ikroy ‘saliva’
rpl voarplak ‘a small bat’
rphl arphlu ‘catch after chasing’

1.5.
 		 SYLLABIC TYPES
Words in Karbi consist of one or more than one syllable. The maximum number of syllables that a word can have is five.
 
me ‘cat’
arve ‘rain’
puthutha ‘tell again (Imp.)’
 damveknaji ‘should go’
kedamlohodey ‘(I) am going (Emph.)’
Open Syllables:
Open syllables end in a vowel. There exists three types of open syllables in Karbi, viz., V, CV,and CCV.
 
e ‘yes’
co ‘axe’
phli ‘four’

Close Syllables:
 
A syllable which ends in a consonant is called close syllable. Three types of close syllables occur in Karbi, viz., VC, CVC, and CCVC.
 
an  ‘cooked rice, meal’
nep ‘catch’
klem  ‘do’
The canonical form of the syllabic types in Karbi is (C) (C) V(C).
 
 
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