The Tai Ahom Sound System as Reflected by the Texts Recorded in the Bark Manuscripts

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dc.contributor.authorGogoi, Poppy
dc.contributor.authorMorey, Stephen
dc.contributor.authorPittayaporn, Pittayawat
dc.date.accessioned2020-09-09T17:26:29Z
dc.date.available2020-09-09T17:26:29Z
dc.date.issued2020-09-08
dc.description.abstractTai Ahom (Southwestern Tai) mostly survives in manuscripts. (Terwiel 1988; Morey 2015). It has long been held that Ahom retained many archaic features lost in most modern Tai languages. For example, Li (1977: pp87-89) reconstructs the cluster *phr- as evidence from Ahom in words like phra ‘rock’ and phrai ‘walk’. However, Diller (1992), argues that Ahom exhibited the “pan-Tai consonant mergers of the sort in which the sounds of the “low series consonants presumably fell together with certain of the others” and hence is not archaic. In order to uncover the true nature of Ahom, this paper investigates how each of Ahom graph relates to the reconstructed proto phonemes in the Proto-Southwestern branch (Li 1977; Pittayaporn 2009). Our analysis was based on eight carefully analyzed manuscripts, identified allographic variations, suggesting mergers and retentions of Tai phonemic contrasts are common among the modern Shan varieties and the lack of archaic features claimed by earlier authors.
dc.format.extent28 pages
dc.identifier.issn1836-6821
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10524/52468
dc.subjectTai Ahom
dc.subjectAllographic variations
dc.subjectmanuscripts
dc.subjectmergers
dc.subjectretentions
dc.subject.languagecodeaho
dc.titleThe Tai Ahom Sound System as Reflected by the Texts Recorded in the Bark Manuscripts
dc.typeArticle
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prism.endingpage42
prism.number2
prism.publicationnameJournal of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society
prism.startingpage14
prism.volume13

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