Pluralization in English and Magar Kham : A Comparative Study

Abstract

This present research entitled 'Pluralization in English and Magar attempts to find out the process of pluralization system in Magar Kham language. I have also made an attempt to find out the differences between English and Magar Kham language pluralization process in regular form. To carry out this research, the researcher has collected one hundred and forty noun words from twenty-eight different categories and they were translated and changed in to plural form in Magar Kham lanuage by Magar Kham speakers. Twenty-men and twenty women were selected to translate and pluralize the words in Magar Kham from Dhime VDC ward no 7 Dhanarasi, as the population of the study. A set of one hundred and forty words have been administered to the selected forty Magar Kham speakers individually and they have translated the words in Magar Kham and made them plural. The data obtained from them has been tabulated and analyzed using the simple statistical tools of percentage. On the basis of analysis and interpretation of data, findings and recommendations were presented here. In this research work, all most all respondents responded in every word they added the letter 'ra' in singular form of uncountable nouns to make them plural in Magar Kham language. No irregular form of pluralization process was found in the Magar Kham. Like in Nepali and English language, plural from of uncountable nouns was not found. Decreasing condition of Magar Kham speakers was found main problems in Magar Kham language during the study. Due to the cross cultureal environment and impact of Nepali language, the original vocabularies of Magar Kham are disappearing. It was found that Magar Kham is written using Devanagari script but sound system of Magar Kham does not match to Devanagari script. xi This thesis has been divided into four chapters, the first chapter deals with introduction and general background and the second chapter deals with the methodology procedures of data collection. Likewise, chapter three is related to the analysis and interpretation of data. In this chapter, the data has been tabulated and analyzed. The last chapter is the account of findings and recommendations