The Gelong Language in the Multilingual Hub of Hainan

Abstract

This paper is a preliminary report on the author’s investigation of a language spoken in the western part of Hainan Province—Gelong (哥隆話, also known as cunyu 村語, lit.: village language). This study is based on the fieldwork data collected in 2011 and 2012. The purpose is to compare the author’s data and those of Fu (1996) and Ouyang (1998) and to discuss the affiliation of this language by comparing the 100 basic vocabulary items in Gelong and Hlai. (This article is in English.)提要本文是作者於2011和2012年調查海南島西部哥隆話的初步報告。調查目的是比較現代哥隆話跟二十多年前的差別 (如符鎮南(1996)和歐陽覺亞(1998))。此外,我們也比較哥隆話和黎語的一百個基本詞匯,討論哥隆話的系屬。