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Cahiers de linguistique - Asie Orientale 35(1) (2006) pp. 3-21

Syllabic inventory of a Western Naxi dialect, and correspondence with Joseph F. Rock's transcriptions

Boyd Michailovsky 1, Alexis Michaud 1, 2

(2006)

Naxi is a Sino-Tibetan language close to the Burmese-Yi subgroup; its precise genetic affiliation is still a matter of debate. After a short review of some earlier publications on Naxi, this paper offers new data (the syllabic inventory of a Western Naxi dialect, based on first-hand fieldwork), and a guide to an older resource: the correspondences between our transcriptions and the script invented by the ‘botanist-explorer' Joseph F. Rock are set out, offering a practical tool for deciphering the somewhat perplexing, idiosyncratic romanised transcription used in his Na-Khi—English Encyclopedic Dictionary, a book of historical importance in Naxi studies.

1 :	Laboratoire des langues et civilisations à tradition orale (LACITO)
	CNRS : UMR7107 – Université Paris III - Sorbonne nouvelle – Université Paris IV - Paris Sorbonne
2 :	Laboratoire de Phonétique et Phonologie (LPP)
	CNRS : UMR7018 – Université Paris III - Sorbonne nouvelle

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Sciences de l'Homme et Société/Linguistique

Mots Clés : Naxi – na – 纳; syllable – phonemics – Joseph Rock – transcription

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