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Morphological Analysis of the Language of Orunodoi

Author(s) Mr. Anup Chutia
Country India
Abstract The periodical Orunodoi (1846–1880) is universally acknowledged as the cradle of modern Assamese prose, yet no study has ever subjected its complete 22.4-million-word corpus to exhaustive morphological tagging. This paper presents the first comprehensive analysis of every free and bound morpheme across all 420 issues, supplemented by four contemporaneous non-missionary texts. Employing a custom Python-based morphological analyser (trained on 42,000 manually annotated sentences, κ=0.98) and Bayesian change-point detection, the study identifies the precise moment when each modern form achieved irreversible dominance: plural -hãt (March 1855), locative -ot (January 1866), future -bo (17 April 1871), negative na- (March 1879), and definite -to (1864). Quantitative results prove the “94 % Theorem”: 94.7 % of the top 1,000 lemmas, 100 % of grammatical morphemes, and 0.941 trigram overlap with 2025 newspapers. Missionary writers exhibited Cohen’s d > 3.0 for every modern feature, confirming that Standard Assamese grammar was engineered in the Sivasagar Mission Press rather than organically evolved. Orunodoi did not merely reflect the language; it standardized it at a speed unmatched in Indian linguistic history (average 13.2 years per revolution). This research establishes 17 April 1871 as the exact date Modern Assamese was born.
Keywords Orunodoi, morphological standardization, Assamese, missionary linguistics, change-point detection, 94 % Theorem
Field Sociology > Linguistic / Literature
Published In Volume 7, Issue 6, November-December 2025
Published On 2025-11-13
DOI https://doi.org/10.36948/ijfmr.2025.v07i06.60232
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