A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF ASSAMESE AND KHASI LANGUAGES ON THE BASIS OF SOCIOLINGUISTIC PERSPECTIVE: WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO KINSHIP TERMS

Sociolinguistics refers as one of the major important branches of Linguistics studies. The concept of language and society are related with each other. Therefore, in the field of linguistics studies, all the aspects of language and its usages in the society is discussed. In other words, sociolinguistics deals in detail with all the aspects of languages focusing on the customs, rituals, social classes, gender differences of different communities (Konwar 2012:108. It also deals with the different forms of languages according to the speaker and the way it is spoken to communicate with one another. The Study of the sources and applications of words used in the language of a society recognized as a study of different contexts of the society. For example: social - system, folklore, culture, are come to light. In such words, the relational words or the kinship terms are among those words that describe the different language relationship in a society. In other words, the linguistics reactions within a particular culture of a society are expressed through the uses of various referential terms of that society and it can give a clear idea about the relationship between people, society, gender and different groups(Sarma 2016: 26). For example: the concept of social control in marital relationship, the different relationship between the individuals, the recognition of each individual as aunique, and the beautiful reflection of the cultural system of a society(Pathak 2021: 2-3). Furthermore, to the formation of those referential terms the culture of a society contributes a lot.