Linguistic diversity along the China-Vietnam border

Linguistic diversity along the China-Vietnam border

The diversity of Tai languages along the border between Guangxi and Vietnam has long fascinated scholars, and led some to postulate that the original Tai homeland was located in this area. In this article I present evidence that this linguistic diversity can be explained in large part not by “...

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Main Author: Holm, David
Other Authors: Department of Ethnology, National Chengchi University
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Language:English
Published: 2024
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spelling sg-ntu-dr.10356-1777092024-06-03T08:32:02Z Linguistic diversity along the China-Vietnam border Holm, David Department of Ethnology, National Chengchi University Arts and Humanities Diversity Homeland The diversity of Tai languages along the border between Guangxi and Vietnam has long fascinated scholars, and led some to postulate that the original Tai homeland was located in this area. In this article I present evidence that this linguistic diversity can be explained in large part not by “divergent local development” from a single proto-language, but by the intrusion of dialects from elsewhere in relatively recent times as a result of migration, forced trans-plantation of populations, and large-scale military operations. Further research is needed to discover any underlying linguistic diversity in the area in deep historical time, but a prior task is to document more fully and systematically the surface diversity as described by Gedney and Haudricourt among others. Published version 2024-06-03T08:32:02Z 2024-06-03T08:32:02Z 2010 Journal Article Holm, D. (2010). Linguistic diversity along the China-Vietnam border. Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area, 33(2), 1-62. https://dx.doi.org/10.32655/LTBA.33.2.01 0731-3500 https://hdl.handle.net/10356/177709 10.32655/LTBA.33.2.01 2 33 1 62 en Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area © 2010 The Editor(s). All rights reserved. application/pdf
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Linguistic diversity along the China-Vietnam border
description The diversity of Tai languages along the border between Guangxi and Vietnam has long fascinated scholars, and led some to postulate that the original Tai homeland was located in this area. In this article I present evidence that this linguistic diversity can be explained in large part not by “divergent local development” from a single proto-language, but by the intrusion of dialects from elsewhere in relatively recent times as a result of migration, forced trans-plantation of populations, and large-scale military operations. Further research is needed to discover any underlying linguistic diversity in the area in deep historical time, but a prior task is to document more fully and systematically the surface diversity as described by Gedney and Haudricourt among others.
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