Linguistic evidence for a closer relationship between Lhokpu and Dhimal

Q2 Arts and Humanities

Cahiers de Linguistique Asie Orientale Pub Date : 2018-10-11 DOI:10.1163/19606028-04701004

Selin Grollmann, Pascal Gerber

引用次数: 5

Abstract

Lhokpu is a hitherto undescribed and unclassified Trans-Himalayan language spoken by some 2,500 speakers in southwestern Bhutan. Fieldwork in 2015 now enables linguistic research on the language, including accounts on its phylogenetic position within the language family. This paper presents morphological, lexical, and phonological evidence for a closer phylogenetic relationship between Lhokpu and Dhimal (southeastern Nepal). Dhimal is conventionally grouped together with Toto under “Dhimalish.” We argue in this paper that the similarities between Lhokpu and Dhimal are equally profound and numerous, and that Lhokpu, Dhimal, and Toto are three closely related languages within the Trans-Himalayan family.

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Lhokpu和Dhimal之间关系更密切的语言学证据

Lhokpu是一种迄今为止未被描述和未分类的跨喜马拉雅语言，在不丹西南部约有2500人使用。2015年的田野调查现在使语言的语言学研究成为可能，包括其在语言家族中的系统发育位置。本文提出了Lhokpu和Dhimal(尼泊尔东南部)之间更密切的系统发育关系的形态学，词汇和音系证据。Dhimal通常与Toto归为“dhimish”。我们在本文中认为，Lhokpu和Dhimal之间的相似之处同样深刻和众多，并且Lhokpu, Dhimal和Toto是跨喜马拉雅语系中三种密切相关的语言。

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Cahiers de Linguistique Asie Orientale Arts and Humanities-Language and Linguistics

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期刊介绍： The Cahiers is an international linguistics journal whose mission is to publish new and original research on the analysis of languages of the Asian region, be they descriptive or theoretical. This clearly reflects the broad research domain of our laboratory : the Centre for Linguistic Research on East Asian Languages (CRLAO). The journal was created in 1977 by Viviane Alleton and Alain Peyraube and has been directed by three successive teams of editors, all professors based at the CRLAO in Paris. An Editorial Board, composed of scholars from around the world, assists in the reviewing process and in a consultative role.