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The Linguistic Geography of Southern China: Language Origins and Dispersals Andrew Hsiu (CRCL) Andhsiu@Gmail.Com The linguistic geography of southern China: language origins and dispersals Andrew Hsiu (CRCL) [email protected] 21st Himalayan Languages Symposium (HLS 21) Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu, Nepal June 2-3, 2015 Outline Purpose: Provide “Big picture” Riverine dispersal theories that I will propose: KD + HM Macrophyla: Austro-Tai, Yangtzean Linguistic areas that I will propose: (1) Lingnan area (2) Plateau area Southern China: ~ 1,000 – 500 B.C. Homelands Inferred mostly from present-day geographic distributions, and some Chinese historical records: Henan, Shaanxi: Sinitic Shandong: Dongyi (TB? “Etruscan of China”?) Hunan: Hmong-Mien Jiangxi: “Para-Hmong-Mien”? Chongqing: Tujia [TB] Sichuan: Qiangic [TB] Yunnan: Bai, Loloish [TB] Guizhou: “Macro-Bai” (Cai-Long) [TB] Guangdong, Guangxi ( = Yue): Kra-Dai Fujian, Zhejiang: Pre-Austronesian Spread of Sinitic Massive expansion of Chinese empire, culture, language starting around 2,000 B.P. (Qin Dynasty, Han Dynasty) Chinese expansion brings about tonogenesis & monosyllabification = creolization processes Parallel to expansion of Roman Empire and Latin / Romance languages TB, KD, HM, AA had also been expanding prior to 2,000 B.P.; they would have wiped out various isolates. KD + HM riverine dispersals I noticed that present-day distributions of KD and HM branches overlap a lot with drainage basins. KD: Pearl River Kra: Hongshui River Kam-Sui: Liu River Tai: Yong River Explains why KD spread west HM: Xiang River Hmongic: Yuan River Mienic: Xiang River Explains why HM spread southwest Kra-Dai riverine dispersal: ~ 3,000 B.P. Former distribution of Buyang (Kra) Source: Li Jinfang (2000). Buyang yu yanjiu. Beijing: Minzu University Press. Hmong-Mien riverine dispersal: ~2,500 B.P. Hmongic: Guizhou, Western Hunan Mienic: Southern Hunan Double-crop rice and languages Single-crop rice and languages Yangtzean, Austro-Tai Yangtzean Stanley Starosta‟s proposal KD & HM: agricultural expansions Hmong-Mien: Daxi culture Para-Hmong-Mien: Jiangxi = perfect geography and conditions for a Hmong-Mien sister family (cf. double-crop rice map) Proto-Yangtzean / Pre-Hmong-Mien would have been in Hubei, perhaps Anhui. HM & KD are “not quite that diverse”, vs. TB (Blench, van Driem, Starosta). Austro-Tai Paul K. Benedict (1942, 1975); Weera Ostapirat (2005) Austro-Tai: Majiabang, Hemudu cultures Fujian coast archaeology (Tianlong Jiao 2007) Fujian to Taiwan migration: 6500-5000 B.P Fujian-Taiwan contact maintained until 3500 B.P. Austro-Tai Proto-Austro-Tai: Fisher-foragers along the Fujian coast (Jiao 2007); no rice agriculture yet. Splits to Proto-Kra-Dai and Proto-Austronesian. Proto-Kra-Dai: Rice agriculturalists in Guangdong (Pearl River Delta), dispersed via rivers. Proto-Austronesian (Formosan): Millet agriculture, no wet-rice agriculture (Blench); no outriggers (yet). Multiple migrations from Fujian (cf. Ross‟ and Li‟s Formosan classifications). Guizhou: earlier languages Guizhou before Tai, Sinitic, HM, Loloish Boren: May be Lachi (Kra branch) (Edmondson & Li 2003) Caijia, Longjia: unclassified TB languages Gelao, Mulao: Kra Tujia (TB isolate branch) Bolyu: AA, Mangic / Pakanic branch; migrated from Guizhou to Guangxi in the 1800‟s with Gelao (Li 1999) “Macro-Sinitic” ≠ Bai (Sagart) “Macro-Bai” (incl. Sinitic) KD-HM, KD-TB, TB-HM contact Lolo-Burmese dispersal: overland Source: Lama, Ziwo (2012). Subgrouping of Nisoic (Yi) Languages. Ph.D. thesis, UT Arlington. Austroasiatic branches: dispersal Credits: Paul Sidwell, Roger Blench Austroasiatic branches: contact Linguistic areas Linguistic areas Linguistic areas formed AFTER Hmong-Mien, Kra split up Language Plateau Lingnan group area area Kra Gelao, Buyang, Lachi Qabiao Hmong- Hmongic Mienic Mien Linguistic areas: origins Formed between 500 A.D. – 1500 A.D. (around or after split-up of Middle Chinese, but before the Qing Dynasty) Plateau area primary influences: Tibeto-Burman + Old Sinitic lects in Sichuan and Hunan Lingnan area primary influences: Tai + Yue Chinese Qiangic: linguistic area but not coherent subgroup (Chirkova) Plateau area Loss of final stops (-p, -t, -k) Tendency for disyllabic and trisyllabic lexical forms (many “dummy” prefixes such as ka-, qa-, ta-, pa-, etc.; PTB *tsa suffix common) Simpler tone systems (many with only 4 tones) Centered in Guizhou Lingnan area Preservation of final stops (-p, -t, -k) Tendency for monosyllabic forms More complex tone systems (many with 8 tones or more) Centered in Guangxi Vietnamese displays both Lingnan and Mon- Khmer features (Red River valley = Lingnan + Mon-Khmer areas). Mutual influences: families Mutual influences: AA-KD-HM triangle Routes facilitating early contact: coasts of Vietnam and southern China, and rivers. TB → HM: widespread influence (Ratliff 2010) TB → KD: heaviest influences in Kra (Ostapirat 2000) AA → HM: various AA loanwords / cognates in Proto- HM („water‟, „blood‟, „bone‟ etc.), but not in KD or TB or AN (Ratliff 2010) HM → AA: less likely than AA → HM, but possible AA → KD: sporadic AA loanwords in Kra KD → AA: widely attested; cf. Reid (2005) on Austric KD → HM: cf. Kosaka (2002) on Miao-Dai HM → KD: cf. Kosaka (2002) on Miao-Dai Whence the interphyletic similarities? Possible explanations for East Asian language family similarities. Austro-Tai =? Sino-Tibetan =? AA =? 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