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The world has many different languages. A language is composed of numerous words. Word formation is what those invented words are known as.Word formation is the process of forming new words or developing old words by adding or deleting syllables. Many terms in many languages around the world are changing significantly, and many more are going extinct. In addition to this, however, a lot of new terms are being created. There are now a lot of new words being created or coined, even within the Kokborok language. A language evolves through word development, and concurrently, its culture advances through this language. . However, there are differences in the ways these words are formed. One way to create new words or add something to existing ones is by using affixes.For example ,Phw/Prefix-rwng/Root-nai/Suffix= Phwrwngnai(Teacher). We can form a new word by combining words with different meanings. For example,mai/rice-dul/round=maidul, tok/bird-thu/Sleep=tokthu(A kind of bird), thai- pung=thaipung. Creating words in this way can be called compounding. There are many such compounding words in the kokborok language. The process of forming a new word by repeating a word or part of it, sometimes with a slight change in sound or vowel is called Reduplication. Ex,Philik-Phalak(naughty and such), Siring-Siring(silence). In the Kokborok language, the number of native words is limited compared to more widely developed languages and because of this, many borrowed words are used especially from Bengali.