Hieroglyphic Evidence for Lowland Mayan Linguistic History

1985 ◽  
Vol 51 (4) ◽  
pp. 469-471 ◽  
Author(s):  
John S. Justeson
Keyword(s):  
Linguistic History

Multilingualism in Linguistic History: Creolization and Indigenization

2008 ◽  
pp. 460-488
Author(s):  
Salikoko Mufwene
Keyword(s):  
Linguistic History

scholarly journals The Duoxu Language and the Ersu-Lizu-Duoxu relationship

2014 ◽  
Vol 37 (1) ◽  
pp. 104-146 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katia Chirkova
Keyword(s):  
Significant Contribution ◽  
18Th Century ◽  
Linguistic Diversity ◽  
Sichuan Province ◽  
Critically Endangered ◽  
Language Family ◽  
Republic Of China ◽  
Genetic Position ◽  
Linguistic History ◽  
Vocabulary List

Duoxu is a terminally endangered and virtually undescribed Tibeto-Burman language, spoken in the historically multi-ethnic and multi-lingual Miǎnníng county of Sìchuān province in the People’s Republic of China. Until recently, Duoxu was known only through a 740-word vocabulary list in the Sino-Tibetan vocabularies Xīfān Yìyǔ [Tibetan-Chinese bilingual glossary], recorded in Chinese and Tibetan transcriptions in the 18th century, and a grammatical sketch (Huáng & Yǐn 2012). Researchers who have worked on the language (Nishida 1973, Sūn 1982, Huáng & Yǐn 2012) have expressed different views about the features and the genetic position of Duoxu, variously viewing it as (1) closely related to Lolo-Burmese languages (Nishida 1973), (2) closely related to Ersu and Lizu, two neighboring languages that are currently classified as members of the Qiangic subgroup of the Tibeto-Burman language family (Sūn 1982), or (3) distantly related to those two languages and to Qiangic languages at large (Huáng & Yǐn 2012). The Duoxu language is critically endangered and urgently requires documentation. It is of great value for our understanding of the linguistic diversity of the region, and of its linguistic history. It is also of great value as a modern reflection of a language that was recorded in the 18th century. This paper makes a significant contribution in all these areas. Based on new fieldwork with all remaining elderly Duoxu speakers, this study provides newly collected data and a new analysis. It compares the newly collected data with the 18th-century attestations of Duoxu as well as with its two putative sister languages Ersu and Lizu. The conclusion of the study is that Duoxu is closely related to Ersu and Lizu, with superficial differences attributed to long-standing and on-going contact influence from Southwestern Mandarin.

Māvors vis-à-vis Mārs: Linguistic History and Cultural Background

Glotta ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 93 (1) ◽  
pp. 135-153 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nishimura Kanehiro
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Background ◽  
Linguistic History

scholarly journals The History of the Language and the History of the Nation

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (2 (22)) ◽  
pp. 106-118
Author(s):  
Gabriella Macciocca
Keyword(s):  
Political Thought ◽  
Italian Literature ◽  
The Political ◽  
Italian Language ◽  
Deep Knowledge ◽  
Linguistic History ◽  
History Of ◽  
The University ◽  
Over Time

The history of the language represents a moment of deep knowledge in the development of the political thought of the Nation. With regard to the Italian language, we must recognize observations and summaries of linguistic history produced ever since the origins of the language itself. A short number of examples, coming from the history of the Italian language, and from the history of Italian literature, will be considered. We will consider in which way the language has been taught over time and the University statement.

scholarly journals A latinizálás és hiánya a pécsváradi apátság alapítólevelében

2020 ◽  
Vol 42 ◽  
pp. 29-46
Author(s):  
Melinda Szőke
Keyword(s):  
Chronological Order ◽  
13Th Century ◽  
Main Road ◽  
15Th Century ◽  
Linguistic History ◽  
Insight Into

The founding charter of Pécsvárad Abbey (+1015/+1158 [about 1220]/1323/1403/PR.) is a document that has only survived in a 15th-century copy of a 13th-century forgery. Thus, an analysis of toponym history and linguistic history must deal with several chronological planes when studying the document. The first section of this study examines Hungarian words (Duna ‘Danube’; the names of trees: e.g. tulfa ‘oak’, scylfa ‘elm’; geographic common nouns: e.g. aruc ‘ditch’, nogwt ‘main road’) that are used only in Latin in other documents or are characterised by mixed usages of Latin and Hungarian terms. These indicate a lack of Latinisation. The second section details the characteristics of five Latin name forms used in the document (Scena abbatis, Sirmia, Strigoniensis, Colocensis, Montis Ferrei), emphasising their chronological order. The small number of Latin names among all designations in the charter and the use of vulgar elements instead of Latin is presented as an imprint of 11th-century charter writing (from the time of Saint Stephen). Thus, the charter can provide significant insight into the beginnings of charter writing in Hungary.

Linguistic history

2014 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Linguistic History

Linguistic History of the Terms ‘Atheism’ and ‘Atheist’

2021 ◽  
pp. 11-13
Author(s):  
Philip Durkin
Keyword(s):  
Linguistic History ◽  
History Of
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