Mitali Pradhan

Patterns of Consonant Weakening and Alternation in Ganjami Odia

The paper focuses on the consonantal restructuring such as deletion, lenition in intervocalic positions and word-initial substitution in the Odia speech variety known as Ganjami Odia, which is mainly spoken in Ganjam and its neighbouring districts in Odisha state. Based on synchronic data collected from 88 adult vernal...