An Analytical Study of Phonology and Morphology of Nyah Kur's Language in Ban Rai Sub-district, Thep Sathit District, Chaiyaphum Province

Abstract

         The Research on " An Analytical Study of Phonology and Morphology of Nyah Kur's Language in Ban Rai Sub-district, Thep Sathit District, Chaiyaphum Province" was aimed to study the word system in Ban Rai Sub-district, Thep Sathit District, Chaiyaphum Province. The researcher studied the word category from 3 dictionaries, namely, Nyah Kur -Thai-English: Prof. Dr. Theeraphan Luengthongkam using the basic words to interview the language speakers and the obtained data were analyzed and presented descriptive.

          The research result finds that:

          The word system of the Nyah Kur spoken in Ban Rai, Ban Rai Sub-district, Thep Sathit District, Chaiyaphum Province, is a non-tonal intonation language, with a difference between the short and long vowels that make the word have different meanings, it is one-syllable words and the two-syllable words, the many-syllable words are very few. In two-syllable words, the second syllable is pronounced heavier than the first syllable, Nyah Kur is a single word language. These word are borrowed from standard Thai, Isan Thai, and Korat dialect used as some of the terms similar to many repetitions. However the meanings of the same words as the repeating forms are irrelevant. Two-syllable words in the Nyah Kur language consist of the primary and secondary syllables which the primary syllable is at the end of the word. The secondary syllable is always the first syllable of the word, such as / lahuut / "girl", etc.