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THE PHONOLOGY of PROTO-TAI a Dissertation Presented to The
THE PHONOLOGY OF PROTO-TAI A Dissertation Presented to the Faculty of the Graduate School of Cornell University In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy by Pittayawat Pittayaporn August 2009 © 2009 Pittayawat Pittayaporn THE PHONOLOGY OF PROTO-TAI Pittayawat Pittayaporn, Ph. D. Cornell University 2009 Proto-Tai is the ancestor of the Tai languages of Mainland Southeast Asia. Modern Tai languages share many structural similarities and phonological innovations, but reconstructing the phonology requires a thorough understanding of the convergent trends of the Southeast Asian linguistic area, as well as a theoretical foundation in order to distinguish inherited traits from universal tendencies, chance, diffusion, or parallel development. This dissertation presents a new reconstruction of Proto-Tai phonology, based on a systematic application of the Comparative Method and an appreciation of the force of contact. It also incorporates a large amount of dialect data that have become available only recently. In contrast to the generally accepted assumption that Proto-Tai was monosyllabic, this thesis claims that Proto-Tai was a sesquisyllabic language that allowed both sesquisyllabic and monosyllabic prosodic words. In the proposed reconstruction, it is argued that Proto-Tai had three contrastive phonation types and six places of articulation. It had plain voiceless, implosive, and voiced stops, but lacked the aspirated stop series (central to previous reconstructions). As for place of articulation, Proto-Tai had a distinctive uvular series, in addition to the labial, alveolar, palatal, velar, and glottal series typically reconstructed. In the onset, these consonants can combine to form tautosyllabic clusters or sequisyllabic structures. -
Youth, Technology and Indigenous Language Revitalization in Indonesia
Youth, Technology and Indigenous Language Revitalization in Indonesia Item Type text; Electronic Dissertation Authors Putra, Kristian Adi Publisher The University of Arizona. Rights Copyright © is held by the author. Digital access to this material is made possible by the University Libraries, University of Arizona. Further transmission, reproduction, presentation (such as public display or performance) of protected items is prohibited except with permission of the author. Download date 24/09/2021 19:51:25 Link to Item http://hdl.handle.net/10150/630210 YOUTH, TECHNOLOGY AND INDIGENOUS LANGUAGE REVITALIZATION IN INDONESIA by Kristian Adi Putra ______________________________ Copyright © Kristian Adi Putra 2018 A Dissertation Submitted to the Faculty of the GRADUATE INTERDISCIPLINARY PROGRAM IN SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION AND TEACHING In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements For the Degree of DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY In the Graduate College THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA 2018 THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA GRADUATE COLLEGE As members of the Dissertation Committee, we certify that we have read the dissertation prepared by Kristian Adi Putra, titled Youth, Technology and Indigenous Language Revitalization in Indonesia and recommend that it be accepted as fulfilling the dissertation requirement for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy. -~- ------+-----,T,___~-- ~__ _________ Date: (4 / 30/2018) Leisy T Wyman - -~---~· ~S:;;;,#--,'-L-~~--~- -------Date: (4/30/2018) 7 Jonath:2:inhardt ---12Mij-~-'-+--~4---IF-'~~~~~"____________ Date: (4 / 30 I 2018) Perry Gilmore Final approval and acceptance of this dissertation is contingent upon the candidate' s submission of the final copies of the dissertation to the Graduate College. I hereby certify that I have read this dissertation prepared under my direction and recommend that it be accepted as fulfilling the dissertation requirement. -
Language Use and Attitudes As Indicators of Subjective Vitality: the Iban of Sarawak, Malaysia
Vol. 15 (2021), pp. 190–218 http://nflrc.hawaii.edu/ldc http://hdl.handle.net/10125/24973 Revised Version Received: 1 Dec 2020 Language use and attitudes as indicators of subjective vitality: The Iban of Sarawak, Malaysia Su-Hie Ting Universiti Malaysia Sarawak Andyson Tinggang Universiti Malaysia Sarawak Lilly Metom Universiti Teknologi of MARA The study examined the subjective ethnolinguistic vitality of an Iban community in Sarawak, Malaysia based on their language use and attitudes. A survey of 200 respondents in the Song district was conducted. To determine the objective eth- nolinguistic vitality, a structural analysis was performed on their sociolinguistic backgrounds. The results show the Iban language dominates in family, friend- ship, transactions, religious, employment, and education domains. The language use patterns show functional differentiation into the Iban language as the “low language” and Malay as the “high language”. The respondents have positive at- titudes towards the Iban language. The dimensions of language attitudes that are strongly positive are use of the Iban language, Iban identity, and intergenera- tional transmission of the Iban language. The marginally positive dimensions are instrumental use of the Iban language, social status of Iban speakers, and prestige value of the Iban language. Inferential statistical tests show that language atti- tudes are influenced by education level. However, language attitudes and useof the Iban language are not significantly correlated. By viewing language use and attitudes from the perspective of ethnolinguistic vitality, this study has revealed that a numerically dominant group assumed to be safe from language shift has only medium vitality, based on both objective and subjective evaluation. -
The Malayic-Speaking Orang Laut Dialects and Directions for Research
KARLWacana ANDERBECK Vol. 14 No., The 2 Malayic-speaking(October 2012): 265–312Orang Laut 265 The Malayic-speaking Orang Laut Dialects and directions for research KARL ANDERBECK Abstract Southeast Asia is home to many distinct groups of sea nomads, some of which are known collectively as Orang (Suku) Laut. Those located between Sumatra and the Malay Peninsula are all Malayic-speaking. Information about their speech is paltry and scattered; while starting points are provided in publications such as Skeat and Blagden (1906), Kähler (1946a, b, 1960), Sopher (1977: 178–180), Kadir et al. (1986), Stokhof (1987), and Collins (1988, 1995), a comprehensive account and description of Malayic Sea Tribe lects has not been provided to date. This study brings together disparate sources, including a bit of original research, to sketch a unified linguistic picture and point the way for further investigation. While much is still unknown, this paper demonstrates relationships within and between individual Sea Tribe varieties and neighbouring canonical Malay lects. It is proposed that Sea Tribe lects can be assigned to four groupings: Kedah, Riau Islands, Duano, and Sekak. Keywords Malay, Malayic, Orang Laut, Suku Laut, Sea Tribes, sea nomads, dialectology, historical linguistics, language vitality, endangerment, Skeat and Blagden, Holle. 1 Introduction Sometime in the tenth century AD, a pair of ships follows the monsoons to the southeast coast of Sumatra. Their desire: to trade for its famed aromatic resins and gold. Threading their way through the numerous straits, the ships’ path is a dangerous one, filled with rocky shoals and lurking raiders. Only one vessel reaches its destination. -
Register in Eastern Cham: Phonological, Phonetic and Sociolinguistic Approaches
REGISTER IN EASTERN CHAM: PHONOLOGICAL, PHONETIC AND SOCIOLINGUISTIC APPROACHES A Dissertation Presented to the Faculty of the Graduate School of Cornell University in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirement for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy by Marc Brunelle August 2005 © 2005 Marc Brunelle REGISTER IN EASTERN CHAM: PHONOLOGICAL, PHONETIC AND SOCIOLINGUISTIC APPROACHES Marc Brunelle, Ph.D. Cornell University, 2005 The Chamic language family is often cited as a test case for contact linguistics. Although Chamic languages are Austronesian, they are claimed to have converged with Mon-Khmer languages and adopted features from their closest neighbors. A good example of such a convergence is the realization of phonological register in Cham dialects. In many Southeast Asian languages, the loss of the voicing contrast in onsets has led to the development of two registers, bundles of features that initially included pitch, voice quality, vowel quality and durational differences and that are typically realized on rimes. While Cambodian Cham realizes register mainly through vowel quality, just like Khmer, the registers of the Cham dialect spoken in south- central Vietnam (Eastern Cham) are claimed to have evolved into tone, a property that plays a central role in Vietnamese phonology. This dissertation evaluates the hypothesis that contact with Vietnamese is responsible for the recent evolution of Eastern Cham register by exploring the nature of the sound system of Eastern Cham from phonetic, phonological and sociolinguistic perspectives. Proponents of the view that Eastern Cham has a complex tone system claim that tones arose from the phonemicization of register allophones conditioned by codas after the weakening or deletion of coda stops and laryngeals. -
Local Identity, Local Languages, Regional Malay, and the Endangerment of Local Languages in Eastern Indonesia
Local identity, local languages, regional Malay, and the endangerment of local languages in eastern Indonesia John Bowden Jakarta Field Station Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology Malay, like other major ‘world languages’, is in fact a diverse kaleidoscope of different varieties with different influences and varying degrees of mutual intelligibility between so-called ‘dialects’. Varieties of Malay are now national languages in Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia and Brunei, and they are native languages to minority groups in places as diverse as Sri Lanka, the Cocos islands in Australia, the Pattani Malay in southern Thailand, as well as minorities in the south of the Philippines and amongst the Moluccan community in the Netherlands. The national language, Bahasa Indonesia, is a variety of Malay based on the court Malay spoken in Riau sultanate, and it was this variety that served as the basis for the development of the national language after the Indonesian language was selected as the language of Indonesia at the Youth Congress in Bandung prior to independence in 1928. However, alongside official Indonesian, there are also dozens of distinct vernacular ‘Malayic languages’ spoken in Sumatra and Kalimantan, and a large number of lingua franca varieties that have sometimes been spoken for hundreds of years. These varieties are scattered across the Indonesian archipelago, and particularly in the east. Sometimes so- called ‘creole’ varieties of Malay, the eastern dialects, have, over lengthy influence by local languages in their regions, picked up many features that are both characteristic and ‘emblematic’ (see Friedman, 1999) of local languages spoken in their regions. Indonesia is home to more local languages than any country on earth except for its neighbour, Papua New Guinea. -
Formerly Studies in Philippine Linguistics
Studies in Philippine Languages and Cultures (formerly Studies in Philippine Linguistics) is a joint venture undertaken by the Linguistic Society of the Philippines and the Summer Institute of Linguistics devoted to the timely publication of papers of an empirical or theoretical nature which contribute to the study of language and communicative behavior in the Philippines. A certain proportion of the papers published will be penultimate versions of works of special interest to the Philippine linguistic community destined for further publication in more final form elsewhere. Scholars engaged in the study and description of Philippine languages and cultures are hereby invited to submit contributions for inclusion in this series. Volumes 15–19 of Studies in Philippine Languages and Cultures are a collection of selected papers originally presented at the Tenth International Conference on Austronesian Linguistics (10-ICAL), Puerto Princesa, Palawan, Philippines, 17-20 January, 2006. SPLC 16 10-ICAL Sumatra Papers, volume editor David Mead Other issues to come from 10-ICAL papers SPLC 17 10-ICAL Pronoun Papers, volume editors E. Lou Hohulin & Mary Ruth Wise SPLC 18 10-ICAL Austronesian Papers, volume editors E. Lou Hohulin & Mary Ruth Wise SPLC 19 10-ICAL Borneo, Sulawesi & Philippines Papers, volume editors Phil Quick & Joanna Smith For inquires and submissions, please write to: Academic Publications Manager Summer Institute of Linguistics P. O. Box 2270 CPO 1099 Manila Philippines E-mail: [email protected] ISSN 0119-6456 1207-2.5C © 2007 Linguistic Society of the Philippines and Summer Institute of Linguistics Studies in Philippine Languages and Cultures Volume 16 (2007), 1–10 Lampungic Languages: Looking for New Evidence of Language Shift in Lampung and the Question of Its Reversal* Katubi Center for Social and Cultural Studies Indonesian Institute of Sciences The Lampungic languages are spoken mainly in Lampung Province and parts of South Sumatra Province, Indonesia. -
Giao Chỉ” (”Jiāozhǐ” ) As a Diffusion Center of Chinese Diachronic Changes: Syllabic Weight Contrast and Phonologisation of Its Phonetic Correlates Frederic Pain
”Giao Chỉ” (”Jiāozhǐ” ) as a diffusion center of Chinese diachronic changes: syllabic weight contrast and phonologisation of its phonetic correlates Frederic Pain To cite this version: Frederic Pain. ”Giao Chỉ” (”Jiāozhǐ” ) as a diffusion center of Chinese diachronic changes: syllabic weight contrast and phonologisation of its phonetic correlates. 2020. halshs-02956831 HAL Id: halshs-02956831 https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-02956831 Preprint submitted on 3 Oct 2020 HAL is a multi-disciplinary open access L’archive ouverte pluridisciplinaire HAL, est archive for the deposit and dissemination of sci- destinée au dépôt et à la diffusion de documents entific research documents, whether they are pub- scientifiques de niveau recherche, publiés ou non, lished or not. The documents may come from émanant des établissements d’enseignement et de teaching and research institutions in France or recherche français ou étrangers, des laboratoires abroad, or from public or private research centers. publics ou privés. GIAO CHỈ AS A DIFFUSION CENTER | 1 "GIAO CH Ỉ" ("JI ĀOZH Ǐ" 交趾 ) AS A DIFFUSIO CETER OF CHIESE DIACHROIC CHAGES: SYLLABIC WEIGHT COTRAST AD PHOOLOGISATIO OF ITS PHOETIC CORRELATES 1 Pa n Freder c ( 白威廉 ) Laborato re Langues et Civilisations à Tradition Orale (LaC TO -CRS , UMR ,10,, Par s) 清華學報 , Tsing Hua Journal of Chinese Studies , 50 (0) The present essay tac4les a part cular l ngu st c facet of the s n c sat on process n Southeast As a. The focal argument addressed throughout th s essay l es n the cla m that G ao Ch; should be granted a central pos t on regard ng the transfer of Old and M ddle Ch nese d achron c features—may they be transferred d rectly or "by-proxy" — nto Southeast As an languages from the commandery ( jùn 郡) of G ao Ch; 交趾 westwards down to the Gulf of Tha land as well as southwards to the Me4ong Delta. -
[.35 **Natural Language Processing Class Here Computational Linguistics See Manual at 006.35 Vs
006 006 006 DeweyiDecimaliClassification006 006 [.35 **Natural language processing Class here computational linguistics See Manual at 006.35 vs. 410.285 *Use notation 019 from Table 1 as modified at 004.019 400 DeweyiDecimaliClassification 400 400 DeweyiDecimali400Classification Language 400 [400 [400 *‡Language Class here interdisciplinary works on language and literature For literature, see 800; for rhetoric, see 808. For the language of a specific discipline or subject, see the discipline or subject, plus notation 014 from Table 1, e.g., language of science 501.4 (Option A: To give local emphasis or a shorter number to a specific language, class in 410, where full instructions appear (Option B: To give local emphasis or a shorter number to a specific language, place before 420 through use of a letter or other symbol. Full instructions appear under 420–490) 400 DeweyiDecimali400Classification Language 400 SUMMARY [401–409 Standard subdivisions and bilingualism [410 Linguistics [420 English and Old English (Anglo-Saxon) [430 German and related languages [440 French and related Romance languages [450 Italian, Dalmatian, Romanian, Rhaetian, Sardinian, Corsican [460 Spanish, Portuguese, Galician [470 Latin and related Italic languages [480 Classical Greek and related Hellenic languages [490 Other languages 401 DeweyiDecimali401Classification Language 401 [401 *‡Philosophy and theory See Manual at 401 vs. 121.68, 149.94, 410.1 401 DeweyiDecimali401Classification Language 401 [.3 *‡International languages Class here universal languages; general -
Indonesian Manuscripts in Great Britain: Addenda Et Corrigenda
INDONESIAN MANUSCRIPTS IN GREAT BRITAIN: ADDENDA ET CORRIGENDA By M. C. RICKLEFSand P. VOORHOEVE Since the publication of the catalogue of manuscripts in Indonesian languages in British public collections (Ricklefs and Voorhoeve, 1977), further MSS have of course come to light, as have some of those errors which inevitably attend such a work. It seems appropriate to publish here a list of additions and substantive corrections known to the authors by the beginning of 1981. The authors of the catalogue are grateful to those librarians and scholars who have brought such things to their notice, and particularly to Dr. A. C. Milner for offering his descriptions of Malay MSS found in the Wellcome Institute for publication here. The conventions, procedures, and abbreviations used in the original catalogue have been followed below. The authors' cataloguing efforts have been restricted to public collections. For a description of six Malay MSS in the private collection of Sir Harold Bailey, of which microfilms are available from the SOAS library, see Jones, 1979. I. MSS NOT INCLUDED IN RICKLEFS AND VOORHOEVE, 1977 BATAK MWSS CENTRE FOR SOUTH-EAST ASIAN STUDIES, UNIVERSITY OF HULL No. 3 Pustaha. Simalungun-Batak. a 1-20: Si pinang rambe, a method of divination in connexion with the main directions, learned by the writer (a man of the clan Matondang) from Tuwan Sungguh Ni Aji in Bangun Panei. a 20-24: Sipatulpak, a kind of protective magic, with tabas (incantation). a 25-27: Poda ni tambarpanahit boltok,a medicine against worms. b 2-7: Tambar hosong, a medicine against asthma. b 8-25: Poda ni panjahai ni tinaru, on divination with an egg. -
BOOK of ABSTRACTS June 28 to July 2, 2021 15Th ICAL 2021 WELCOME
15TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON AUSTRONESIAN LINGUISTICS BOOK OF ABSTRACTS June 28 to July 2, 2021 15th ICAL 2021 WELCOME The Austronesian languages are a family of languages widely dispersed throughout the islands of The name Austronesian comes from Latin auster ICAL The 15-ICAL wan, Philippines 15th ICAL 2021 ORGANIZERS Department of Asian Studies Sinophone Borderlands CONTACTS: [email protected] [email protected] 15th ICAL 2021 PROGRAMME Monday, June 28 8:30–9:00 WELCOME 9:00–10:00 EARLY CAREER PLENARY | Victoria Chen et al | CHANNEL 1 Is Malayo-Polynesian a primary branch of Austronesian? A view from morphosyntax 10:00–10:30 COFFEE BREAK | CHANNEL 3 CHANNEL 1 CHANNEL 2 S2: S1: 10:30-11:00 Owen Edwards and Charles Grimes Yoshimi Miyake A preliminary description of Belitung Malay languages of eastern Indonesia and Timor-Leste Atsuko Kanda Utsumi and Sri Budi Lestari 11:00-11:30 Luis Ximenes Santos Language Use and Language Attitude of Kemak dialects in Timor-Leste Ethnic groups in Indonesia 11:30-11:30 Yunus Sulistyono Kristina Gallego Linking oral history and historical linguistics: Reconstructing population dynamics, The case of Alorese in east Indonesia agentivity, and dominance: 150 years of language contact and change in Babuyan Claro, Philippines 12:00–12:30 COFFEE BREAK | CHANNEL 3 12:30–13:30 PLENARY | Olinda Lucas and Catharina Williams-van Klinken | CHANNEL 1 Modern poetry in Tetun Dili CHANNEL 1 CHANNEL -
Borneo, Classification, Languages, Kenyah, Punan, Penan
Studying Linguistic and Cultural Contact in Borneo: Prospects and Challenges ANTONIA SORIENTE1* Abstract In the variegated landscape of languages and cultures of Borneo, the study of languages is a powerful tool to shed light on the intricate history of re- lations that has long been obscured by the polarization between ‘Dayak’ and ‘Malay’. This article looks at some of the features of Lebu’ Kulit Kenyah, Penan Benalui, Punan Tubu’ and Ma’ Pnaan (Punan Malinau/ Segah) languages to clarify the linguistic and cultural affiliations among groups that were otherwise lumped together in vague classifications. It demonstrates what is to follow: according to a number of phonological, morphological and lexical evidence, and other historical evidence, Lebu’ Kulit has to be listed among the Kayanic languages. Penan Benalui, like the other Penan languages, is not a Kenyah language, whereas Punan Tubu’, despite the alleged cultural and social similarity with other Pu- nan groups, cannot be classified within the Penan branch nor with other Punan languages. Ma’ Pnaan or Punan Malinau/Segah is not a Punan language and is linguistically classified within the Kayanic branch of the Kayan-Kenyah subgroup. Keywords: Borneo, classification, languages, Kenyah, Punan, Penan Introduction The island of Borneo is home to a great number of different groups of varied identities and multiple languages and cultures. This diversity has been obscured in its history by a lack of historical data from one side and from the legacy of polarization between the Dayak and the Malay identities. From one side, very little is known of these ethnic groups prior to the late nineteenth century, when they were already ethnically established, and the definition ‘Dayak’, a colonial construction, started to appear.