LINGUISTICS: lesson 4

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Speakers of the Sino-Tibetan language family

  • ca. 400 members

  • largest groups: Chinese and Tibeto-Burman

  • many small language communities

  • exact relationships difficult to establish

<ul><li><p>ca. 400 members</p></li><li><p>largest groups: Chinese and Tibeto-Burman</p></li><li><p>many small language communities</p></li><li><p>exact relationships difficult to establish</p></li></ul><p></p>
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What is the Bai 白 language?

  • Sino-Tibetan language spoken in various parts of Yunnan

  • several dialects

  • 8 tones

  • all open syllables

  • difficult to establish exact family relations: many layers of loan words from Chinese

  • own script adopted from Chinese

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<p>What is the Karen language?</p>

What is the Karen language?

  • spoken mostly in Myanmar

  • tonal language

  • SVO word order

  • script adapted from Burmese

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Short history of research on Sino-Tibetan language family

18th century: 1st theories of similarities between Tibetan and Burmese

19th century: establishment of more relations

  • “Tibeto-Burman” by James Richard Logan (also added Karen)

mid 20th century:

  • Matisoff: “Sino-Tibetan Philology Project”

  • Paul Benedict: established the Sino-Tibetan Linguistics as a research field + Proto-Tibeto-Burman language reconstruction

  • Karlgren: reconstruction of Old and Middle Chinese