ANTHROPOLOGICAL STUDY OF MANIPURI PROVERBS

Proverbs are the specified speech genres, which play an important role in the cultural system of the given community. People exhibit their linguistic proficiency and the eco-cultural knowledge by using appropriate proverbs whenever the need be. Present paper tries to investigate the cultural embedded-ness of the proverbs from Manipur, a small state in North-East India. Various aspects of the Manipuri culture have been represented through the handful of proverbs. Paper also tires to understand the cognitive foundation of the proverbs being used, by comparing similar proverb from four different languages.