‘Adi Song for the Recovery of Lost Health’ is in Miri Agom while Adi Agom is the Adi community’s language for routine conversation. How does this reflect upon the high level of language sensitivity of the Adi? Can you think of other parallels in modern languages between the literary variety and the colloquial variety?
Miri Agom is a highly rhythmic language which is used by the Adi tribe to chant their rituals. This is different from their regular conversational language, Adi Agom. The differentiated languages for routine conversation and chanting of rituals shows the high level of language sensitivity of the Adi. Such parallels can be observed in other modern languages like English and Hindi as well, where a difference in literary variety and colloquial variety exists.