Sociological Variations in Chittoor Dialect

Abstract

Abstract

Chittoor District is one of the four districts of Rayalseema region of Andhra Pradesh. The following is an account of sociological variations obtaining in phonological, grammatical categories and in vocabulary of Chittoor district speech. The striking variations are obtaining mainly in between educated and uneducated speech. However the other social scales like occupation, caste are also influencing the speech habits in this district (Chittoor). PHONOLOGY Aspiration A majority of educated informants retain aspiration in their speech. These informants are not very particular or rather conscious about the aspiration in their speech behaviour. There are umpteen occasions where a single educated informant retain aspiration and also lost it even with regard to same words.