Aspirated And Unaspirated Phoneme In North Central Dialect Of Bodo : An Acoustic Analysis

Abstract

Bodo is a Sino- Tibetan Language spoken primarily by the Bodo people of North-East India .It is an official language of the state of Assam and the Bodoland Territorial Region of India. Since 1975 the language has been written using Devanagari Script . The Bodo has  16 consonants . There are 3 aspirated sounds found in Bodo language. These are -  /b, d, g/  and there are 3 unaspirated sounds found in Bodo language these are /p^h , t^h . k^h /. In this topic i am  trying to analysis the acoustic value (F1,F2,energy) of Bodo  aspirated and unaspirated sounds.