A preliminary study of Tibetan loanwords and cognates in Japhug rGyalrong.
Résumé
The relationship between rGyalrong and Tibetan is quite complex. As members of the
same family, rGyalrong and Tibetan share cognates inherited from a common ancestor.
However rGyalrong has been in contact with Tibetan since the VIII century, and has continuously loaned words from various stages of
Tibetan from this time up to now.
In order to clarify the situation, we used a technique inspired by Sagart and Xu (2001)'s study of Chinese
loanwords in Hani to distinguish
Tibetan loanwords from cognates, and to analyse the stratification of the loanwords.
same family, rGyalrong and Tibetan share cognates inherited from a common ancestor.
However rGyalrong has been in contact with Tibetan since the VIII century, and has continuously loaned words from various stages of
Tibetan from this time up to now.
In order to clarify the situation, we used a technique inspired by Sagart and Xu (2001)'s study of Chinese
loanwords in Hani to distinguish
Tibetan loanwords from cognates, and to analyse the stratification of the loanwords.
Domaines
Linguistique
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