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- Title
THE REPRESENTATION OF TAI ONSETS IN KAMMU LOANWORDS.
- Authors
Svantesson, Jan-Olof
- Abstract
Kammu (Kmhmu', Khmu'), an Austroasiatic language of northern Laos, has borrowed extensively from Tai languages (Lao and Lü) for a long time. Many loanwords retain phonological features lost in Tai languages, and it is shown that the donor language for the first major layer of loanwords is more or less identical to Proto-Southwestern Tai as reconstructed by Li (1977). In general, the Kammu data support Li's reconstruction, but also suggest some emendations.
- Subjects
LAOS; KHMU' language; TAI languages; LOANWORDS; PHONOLOGY; AUSTROASIATIC languages
- Publication
Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area, 2011, Vol 34, Issue 1, p27
- ISSN
0731-3500
- Publication type
Article