Some peculiarities of Cuoi Cham, a Vietic language of Nghe-An (Vietnam)

Michel Ferlus (1)

1 CRLAO - Centre de Recherches Linguistiques sur l'Asie Orientale

The Cuoi Cham language (in Vietnamese: Cuối Chăm) is a member of the Tho (Thổ) subgroup of the Vietic group within the Austroasiatic family. The Tho dialects are spoken in some areas of the northern part of Nghe An province; Henri Maspero referred to them as “Southern Muong”. They have a high degree of lexical similarity with Vietnamese, partly inherited, and partly acquired through Vietnamese influence. However, the Tho dialects are phonetically more conservative than Vietnamese. This handout presents an analysis of the phonological system of Cuoi Cham, and observations on correspondences with Vietnamese and other languages of the Vietic group. [This is an expanded translation done by Alexis Michaud in 2014, in consultation with the author. Original title of handout: “Quelques particularités du cuôi cham, une langue viet-muong du Nghê-an (Vietnam)”. Available: https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-00927642]

Mots clés: dialectology; Mọn; Vietnamese; Mon-Khmer; Cuoi Cham; diachronic phonology; Thổ; historical phonetics; Vietic; Austroasiatic

Domaines: Linguistique

Michel Ferlus. Some peculiarities of Cuoi Cham, a Vietic language of Nghe-An (Vietnam) . Neuvièmes Journées de Linguistique de l'Asie Orientale, May 1994, Paris, France. ⟨halshs-01079521⟩