Gender differences in Meiteiron

• Main Author: Pramodini, N.
• Other Authors: Manipur University, India
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2024
• Subjects: Arts and Humanities
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/177968
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

This article explores the gender dominance and differences in Meiteiron in some detail with a modest historical explanation. The lin-guistic evidence argues against the general claim of prior male domi¬nance, particularly the linguistic evidence in archaic Meiteiron. It is argued that the speech of...