Volume : VIII, Issue : V, May - 2018

THE PHONOLOGICAL SYSTEM OF ODIA LANGUAGE: AN ANALYSIS

Dr. Debasis Mohapatra

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Phonology is the study of sound patterns of a particular language. More popularly known as the study of mental representation of contrastive sound units. In other words the study of how speech sounds structure themselves to participate in higher forms and functions in languages.Odia the state language of Odisha , is spoken by nearly thirty five million people as mother tongue inside and outside   Odisha province and nearly half figure reported here also speak this language as their other tongue. Odia is an essential tool for anyone planning to work among people of Odisha as ninety percent of the state’s population uses it for their major purposes. Odia is an Eastern Indo–Aryan language, belongs to Indo– Aryan language family. From the semantic point of view Odia words can be divided into functional word, grammatical word, lexical word, contains word, compositional word, lexicalized word, onomatopoeic word etc.

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DR.DEBASIS MOHAPATRA, THE PHONOLOGICAL SYSTEM OF ODIA LANGUAGE: AN ANALYSIS, INDIAN JOURNAL OF APPLIED RESEARCH : Volume-8 | Issue-5 | May-2018

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