IOSR Journal of Humanities And Social Science (IOSR-JHSS) Volume 25, Issue 11, Series 1 (November. 2020) 35-40 e-ISSN: 2279-0837, p-ISSN: 2279-0845. www.iosrjournals.org DOI: 10.9790/0837-2511013540 www.iosrjournals.org 35 |Page Ablaut and Rhyme Reduplication of Bodo and Garo Language Jaydev Boro 1 , Swarna Prabha Chainary 2 1 Research Scholar, dept of Bodo, Gauhati University, India 2 Professor, dept of Bodo Gauhati UniversityIndia Abstract: This research paper provides a short analysis and discussion on the Ablaut and Rhyme reduplication of the Bodo and the Garo language, the two Tibeto-Burman languages of North-East India. The goal of this paper is to discuss the features and functions with respect to Ablaut and Rhyme reduplication in both the languages. This analysis is all about relationship between phonology and reduplication, where Ablaut reduplication relates to vowel and Rhyme duplication relates to consonant. Ablaut and rhyme reduplication create new lexis also expresses the plural meaning in both the languages helping in forming inflectional and derivational category of words. Keywords: ablaut reduplication, derivational, inflectional, phonology, plural meaning, rhyme reduplication. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date of Submission: 26-10-2020 Date of Acceptance: 06-11-2020 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I. INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background: Reduplication is a common and interesting linguistic phenomenon in Bodo and Garo language studied under the process of morphology, where repeating exactly or a part of a word takes place. This repeating is used to carry the semantic meaning and to refer to form new words. According to Abbi - “repetition of all or a part of a lexical item (word) carrying a semantic modification” (Abbi, 1994:14). The Bodo and Garo languages belong to the Bodo sub-section of Bodo-Naga group of Tibeto-Burman family. Bodo and Garo speakers are spread throughout north-east India including Assam, Meghalaya, Arunachal, Nagaland, Tripura, West Bengal and neighboring countries Bhutan, Nepal and Bangladesh. However, Bodo speakers are mainly found in Assam and the Garo speakers in Meghalaya, India. 1.2 Aims and Objective of study: The aims and objective of this paper is-  To study the repetition of the base in reduplicated form.  To examine the features and functions of reduplication.  To find out the locations of alternation of the base in repetition. 1.3 Methodology: Comparative linguistics is a field of linguistics where comparisons of more than one language in different levels of linguistic analysis are done. Under the subject of study, researchers have visited different language speaking areas of these two groups to gather first hand information on the subject. Comparative and descriptive analysis methods are adopted to go in depth of the subject in trying to find out the similarities and dissimilarities that these two cognate languages have in case of reduplication. Data have been collected mainly using observation, interview methods and questionnaires. Voice recording and videography have been done using mobiles Samsung A10 and OPPO F9 when and where necessary. II. DISCRETION AND ANALYSIS 2.1 Reduplication: Reduplication is classified into two categories: complete and partial. In complete reduplication the base is reduplicated completely without any change, on the other hand in partial reduplication only part of the base is reduplicated. However, this paper presents an overview on the ablaut and rhyme reduplication of Bodo and Garo languages. The rhyme and ablaut reduplication are related to phonology, where both vowels and consonants play an important role in reduplication. 2.1.1 Ablaut Reduplication: The ablaut reduplication is closely related to vowel phoneme. In ablaut reduplication, a base is repeated completely with slight changes when repeated. The vowel of the base changes to another vowel in reduplication.