COM.on C.A.5:e35/200-213
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Dec.15, 2011.
doi:10.4236/coca.2011.51035
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On Genetic Affiliation and Subgrouping of Hmong-Mien Languages
Hang Huang
The Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing 100081,China
Abstract:
The Hmong-Mien languages share numerous cognates, which bear solid evidence to their genetic relatedness. On the other hand, the most stable core members of the Hmong-Mien cognates correspond in large numbers with either Chinese or the Austroasiatic languages, while a certain number are related to either Kam-Tai languages, or the Austronesian languages, or even the Tibeto-Burman languages. Such lexical correspondence or relatedness attests both the multiple origin of the Hmong-Mien lexical items and extensive contacts with other language families. Nonetheless, due to the genetic gap between the Hmong-Mien group and the Sino-Tibetan family, and the even bigger gap between the Hmong-Mien group with the macro Sino-Austric family, a tentative hypothesis may be proposed to explain the afore-mentioned core vocabulary correspondence between the Hmong-Mien group and other language families, i.e., the Austroasiatic family constitutes the language substratum to the Hmong-Mien group, whereas Chinese shares intensive language contacts with the Hmong-Mien group.
Key words:
Hmong-Mien languages, genetic affiliation and subgrouping of languages, contact-induced language variations
Recieved: Sep.18,
2011 Accepted:
Nov.30, 2011 Corresponding:
huangxing@cass.org.cn
《现代人类学通讯》第五卷e35篇 第200-213页
2011年12月15日网上发行
会议报告
苗瑶语的系属与分类问题
黄 行
中国社会科学院民族学与人类学研究所
摘要：苗瑶语中有众多的同源词，因此是确凿无疑的亲属语言。从语言的外部关系看，苗瑶语同源词中最稳定的核心词分别批量与汉语和南亚语对应，同时也有些与侗台语和南岛语甚至藏缅语有关，说明苗瑶语具有词源的多源性和广泛的语言接触关系。由于苗瑶语和汉藏语乃至更大的华澳语系距离较远，因此苗瑶语和诸语族核心词的对应现象，可以暂时假设其与南亚语为底层关系而与汉语为深刻的接触关系。
关键词：苗瑶语；语言系属分类；语言接触变异
收稿日期：2011年9月18日
修回日期：2011年11月30日
联系人：黄 行
huangxing@cass.org.cn