Publication details
Číslovky v sinitických jazycích
| Title in English | Numerals in Sinitic Languages |
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| Authors | |
| Year of publication | 2012 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | Dálný východ |
| MU Faculty or unit | |
| Citation | |
| Field | Linguistics |
| Keywords | Sinitic languages/dialects; sino-korean; Sino-Japanese; Sino-Vietnamese; Tai-Kadai; numerals; borrowings |
| Description | The present contribution has two purposes: (i) To demonstrate similarities and differences between individual Sinitic languages / dialect, using as illustrative example such compact specimen of lexicon as cardinal numerals in perspective of recontructible phases of development of Chinese; (ii) To identify the numerals of Chinese origin in chosen non-Sinitic languages, namely Sino-Vietnamese, Sino-Korean, Sino-Japanese, and Tai-Kadai. A relatively large dispersion of Chinese numerals in languages of the Far East and Southeast Asia was a reason, why some scholars thought about a genetic relationship between the Sino-Tibetan and Tai-Kadai language families. But the numerals and busines terminology represent a prerequisite of contacts in the ethnic mixtured areas and indicate the results of social communications and exchanges. Finally the numerals of the North Taic language Buyi serve to demonstrate their development from mid to the end of the 20th century. |
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