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DOI : 10.1075/dia.28.4.02jac

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Diachronica 28, 4 (2011) 468-498

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Approaching the historical phonology of three highly eroded Sino-Tibetan languages: Naxi, Na and Laze

Guillaume Jacques (  Auteur correspondant ) 1, Alexis Michaud 2

(2011)

Naxi, Na and Laze are three languages whose position within Sino-Tibetan is controversial. We propose that these languages are descended from a common ancestor ("proto-Naish"). Unlike conservative languages of the family, such as Rgyalrong and Tibetan, which have consonant clusters and final consonants, Naxi, Na and Laze share a simple syllabic structure (consonant+glide+vowel+tone) due to phonological erosion. This raises the issue of how the regular phonological correspondences between these three languages should be interpreted, and which phonological structure should be reconstructed for proto-Naish. The regularities revealed by the comparison of the three languages are interpreted in light of potentially cognate forms in conservative languages. This comparison brings out numerous cases of phonetic conditioning of the vowel by the place of articulation of a preceding consonant or consonant cluster. Overall, these findings warrant a relatively optimistic conclusion concerning the feasibility of unraveling the phonological history of highly eroded language subgroups within Sino-Tibetan.

1 :	Centre de recherches linguistiques sur l'Asie orientale (CRLAO)
	CNRS : UMR8563 – École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales [EHESS] – INALCO PARIS
2 :	Laboratoire des langues et civilisations à tradition orale (LACITO)
	CNRS : UMR7107 – Université Paris III - Sorbonne nouvelle – Université Paris IV - Paris Sorbonne

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Sciences de l'Homme et Société/Linguistique

Mots-Clés : phonological erosion – consonantal conditioning of vowels – syllable structure – Sino-Tibetan – Naxi – Na – Laze

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