William J. Gedney's the Lue Language: Glossary, Texts, and Translations - Couverture rigide

Gedney, William

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0891480765 ISBN 13 : 9780891480761

Editeur : University of Michigan, Centre for South and Southeast Asian Studies, 1996

Synopsis

During the late 1960s, William J. Gedney completed an exhaustive study of Lue, a Tai language spoken in northern Thailand, parts of Burma, and the Sipsongpanna region of Yunnan in southern China. Using several informants, including the former ruling prince of Sipsongpanna, Gedney compiled a massive glossary of words, phrases, sentences, proverbs, and song fragments. In addition, he elicited three lengthy texts dealing with the birth of the Buddha. This volume presents all of these data along with an introduction. Lue, or Tai-Lue, belongs to the Southwestern branch of the Tai language family, and Lue speakers can be found in a number of areas: 1) in Chieng Hung, the capital city of Sipsongpanna, and most of southern Yunnan province; 3) inChiengrai and Chieng Mai provinces in northern Thailand; 4) in Muong Sing and Luang Prabang in Laos; and 5) in northwest Vietnam around Binh Lue. All of Gedney’s Lue material presented in this volume was provided by speakers from two localities: 1) Chieng Hung (H), where Lue is the dialect of the capital city and the ruling family, and 2) Muong Yong, (Y) to the west, across the border in northeastern Burma.Although Lue has its own writing system, the data in this volume are written in the International Phonetic Alphabet, except for the palatal semivowel.

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À propos de l'auteur

William J. Gedney was Professor of Linguistics at the University of Michigan. Thomas John Hudak is Professor Emeritus of Human Evolution and Social Change at Arizona State University. He focuses on the linguistics and literature of Southea

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Michigan, Centre for South and Southeast Asian Studies
• Date d'édition: 1996
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0891480765
• ISBN 13: 9780891480761
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 1355
• Éditeur: Hudak Thomas
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