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Tiwa, also known as Lalung, is a Tibeto-Burman language of the Bodo-Garo subfamily, and has 27,072 speakers in the Indian state of Assam. Not much is known about the linguistic features of the Tiwa language, and still less is known of its phonology. In this work, we investigate the tones of the Tiwa language with the help of instrumental acoustic measures supported by statistical tests in order to determine the types of tones that exist in the language. We also examine the acoustic characteristics that may help native speakers to distinguish the tones in Tiwa. Furthermore, we investigate how tones operate in non-derived monosyllabic words in the language.
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Tiwa, also known as Lalung, is a Tibeto-Burman language of the Bodo-Garo subfamily, and has 27,072 speakers in the Indian state of Assam. Not much is known about the linguistic features of the Tiwa language, and still less is known of its phonology. In this work, we investigate the tones of the Tiwa language with the help of instrumental acoustic measures supported by statistical tests in order to determine the types of tones that exist in the language. We also examine the acoustic characteristics that may help native speakers to distinguish the tones in Tiwa. Furthermore, we investigate how tones operate in non-derived monosyllabic words in the language.
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