A phonology of Zeme

• Main Author: Yap, Valerie Ee Sun
• Other Authors: Alexander Coupe
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: Nanyang Technological University 2020
• Subjects: Humanities::Linguistics::Phonetics; Humanities::Linguistics::Phonology
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/138332
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Zeme is a Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dima Hasao district of Assam state, Northeast India. It is a critically underdocumented language, and existing linguistic work on it is few and far between. This thesis investigates the phonology of Zeme, with a focus on segmental phonology, based on phonetic and phonemic transcription and analysis of the language from recorded audio data of native speakers provided to me. Zeme is established to have a phonemic inventory and syllable structure similar to its dialects, Liangmai and Rongmei, and is also a tonal language expected of a Tibeto-Burman language spoken in Southeast Asia.