oai:soas.ac.uk:MPI656031
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| Title: | The Duoxu language and the Ersu-Lizu-Duoxu relationship | |
| 0318-00000000 - The Duoxu language and the Ersu-Lizu-Duoxu relationship | ||
| Contributor: | Katia Chirkova | |
| Coverage: | China | |
| Date: | 2014-07-04 | |
| Description: | Academic paper by Katia Chirkova "The Duoxu language and the Ersu-Lizu-Duoxu" relationship, published in Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area 37.1: 104-146. Abstract: Duoxu is a terminally endangered and virtually undescribed Tibeto-Burman language, spoken in the historically multi-ethnic and multi-lingual Miǎnníng county of Sìchuān province in the People’s Republic of China. Until recently, Duoxu was known only through a 740-word vocabulary list in the Sino-Tibetan vocabularies Xīfān Yìyǔ [Tibetan-Chinese bilingual glossary], recorded in Chinese and Tibetan transcriptions in the 18th century, and a grammatical sketch (Huáng & Yǐn 2012). Researchers who have worked on the language (Nishida 1973, Sūn 1982, Huáng & Yǐn 2012) have expressed different views about the features and the genetic position of Duoxu, variously viewing it as (1) closely related to Lolo-Burmese languages (Nishida 1973), (2) closely related to Ersu and Lizu, two neighboring languages that are currently classified as mem- bers of the Qiangic subgroup of the Tibeto-Burman language family (Sūn 1982), or (3) distantly related to those two languages and to Qiangic languages at large (Huáng & Yǐn 2012). The Duoxu language is critically endangered and urgently requires documen- tation. It is of great value for our understanding of the linguistic diversity of the region, and of its linguistic history. It is also of great value as a modern reflection of a language that was recorded in the 18th century. This paper makes a signifi- cant contribution in all these areas. Based on new fieldwork with all remaining elderly Duoxu speakers, this study provides newly collected data and a new analysis. It compares the newly collected data with the 18th-century attesta- tions of Duoxu as well as with its two putative sister languages Ersu and Lizu. | |
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| Identifier: | oai:soas.ac.uk:MPI656031 | |
| Identifier (URI): | https://lat1.lis.soas.ac.uk/ds/asv?openpath=MPI656031%23 | |
| Subject: | Academic Publication | |
| English language | ||
| Subject (ISO639): | eng | |
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| Archive: | Endangered Languages Archive | |
| Description: | http://www.language-archives.org/archive/soas.ac.uk | |
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| OaiIdentifier: | oai:soas.ac.uk:MPI656031 | |
| DateStamp: | 2018-09-25 | |
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| Citation: | Katia Chirkova; Katia Chirkova. 2014-07-04. Endangered Languages Archive. | |
| Terms: | area_Europe country_GB iso639_eng | |
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| Country: | United Kingdom | |
| Area: | Europe | |