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The origin and spread of Mizo gender suffixes *-a and *-i on personal names
- Source: Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area, Volume 42, Issue 1, Jun 2019, p. 137 - 142
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- 14 Jun 2019
Abstract
Abstract
This study presents a diachronic puzzle of the gender suffixes’ origin in Mizo personal names, -a for male and -i for female. It also provides a plausible sociolinguistic explanation for the fast spread of its use by the whole population, that is, the use of these gender suffixes was expedited as a result of the adoption by the well respected missionaries.
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