North Central Dialect of Bodo Nasal and Fricative Sounds: 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 language has 16 consonants. There are three fricative sounds / s,z,,h/ and  three Nasal sounds /m.n.ng/  found in Bodo language. In this topic researcher is trying to analysis the acoustic value of nasal and fricative phoneme of Bodo language.