{"title":"Contact and convergence: The Mon language in Burma and Thailand","authors":"Patrick Mccormick, M. Jenny","doi":"10.1163/19606028-00422P01","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Mon has long been in contact with the dominant Burmese and Thai languages. The documented history of more than a thousand years allows us to trace changes in the language over time. This study looks at the divergent Mon varieties spoken today in Burma (Myanmar) and Thailand respectively, both influenced to different degrees and in different domains by the dominant national languages, Burmese and Thai. The study brings together insights from areal linguistics and history, painting a picture of the development of Mon in the two countries and its changing structure. Le mon a ete depuis longtemps en contact avec les langues dominantes que sont le birman et le thai. Une documentation historique de plus d'un millenaire nous permet de suivre l'evolution de cette langue a travers les epoques. Cette etude s'interesse aux varietes divergentes de mon parlees aujourd'hui en Birmanie et en Thailande respectivement, toutes deux influencees a des degres divers et dans des domaines differents par les languges nationales dominantes, le birman et le thai. Cette etude s'appuie a la fois sur la linguistique areale et l'histoire afin de brosser un tableau du developpement du mon dans ces deux pays et de son evolution structurelle.","PeriodicalId":35117,"journal":{"name":"Cahiers de Linguistique Asie Orientale","volume":"06 1","pages":"77-117"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2013-05-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1163/19606028-00422P01","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Cahiers de Linguistique Asie Orientale","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1163/19606028-00422P01","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"Arts and Humanities","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Mon has long been in contact with the dominant Burmese and Thai languages. The documented history of more than a thousand years allows us to trace changes in the language over time. This study looks at the divergent Mon varieties spoken today in Burma (Myanmar) and Thailand respectively, both influenced to different degrees and in different domains by the dominant national languages, Burmese and Thai. The study brings together insights from areal linguistics and history, painting a picture of the development of Mon in the two countries and its changing structure. Le mon a ete depuis longtemps en contact avec les langues dominantes que sont le birman et le thai. Une documentation historique de plus d'un millenaire nous permet de suivre l'evolution de cette langue a travers les epoques. Cette etude s'interesse aux varietes divergentes de mon parlees aujourd'hui en Birmanie et en Thailande respectivement, toutes deux influencees a des degres divers et dans des domaines differents par les languges nationales dominantes, le birman et le thai. Cette etude s'appuie a la fois sur la linguistique areale et l'histoire afin de brosser un tableau du developpement du mon dans ces deux pays et de son evolution structurelle.
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The Cahiers is an international linguistics journal whose mission is to publish new and original research on the analysis of languages of the Asian region, be they descriptive or theoretical. This clearly reflects the broad research domain of our laboratory : the Centre for Linguistic Research on East Asian Languages (CRLAO). The journal was created in 1977 by Viviane Alleton and Alain Peyraube and has been directed by three successive teams of editors, all professors based at the CRLAO in Paris. An Editorial Board, composed of scholars from around the world, assists in the reviewing process and in a consultative role.