A FEW SIMILARITIES FOUND IN BORO AND KOKBOROK: THE TWO LANGUAGES OF NORTH-EAST INDIA

This paper aims to explore the similarities and dissimilarities appearing in case of few domains of the Boro and Kokborok, the languages of Assam and Tripura. It tries to highlight the phonological similarities and dissimilarities these two languages have in case of segmental and suprasegmental phonology. In segmental some phonemic changes occurring in both the languages have been given. Tone is a very important suprasegmental feature of both the languages. In case of word formation compounding and agglutinating occupy a prominent place and have been tried to include in the paper citing few examples. The similarities and dissimilarities in few morphological processes and exceptions have been taken care of in this paper.