Dong language

Dong language

language
name=Dong
nativename=Gaeml
familycolor=Tai-Kadai
states=CHN
region=Guizhou, Hunan, Guangxi
speakers=1.5 million
fam1=Tai-Kadai
fam2=Kam-Tai
fam3=Kam-Sui
iso2=tai
lc1=doc|ld1=North Dong|ll1=none
lc2=kmc|ld2=South Dong|ll2=none

The Dong language (own name: "leec Gaeml") is a Tai-Kadai (or Zhuang-Dong) language spoken by the Dong people of China. It has been traditionally written in Chinese characters. A new spelling based on the Latin alphabet was developed in 1958, but it is not used very much, due to a lack of printed material and trained teachers.

Ethnologue distinguishes two Dong dialects as separate but very closely related "languages" with the codes "doc" and "kmc". [http://www.ethnologue.org/show_family.asp?subid=90182]

Phonology and orthography

Initials

Dong has 32 syllable-initial consonants; seven of them (IPA|ʧ-, IPA|ʧʰ-, IPA|ʃ-, IPA|ɻ-, IPA|f-, IPA|ʦ- and IPA|ʦʰ-) only occur in recent loanwords from Chinese.

References

* Ōu Hēngyuán 欧亨元: Cic deenx Gaeml Gax / Dòng-Hàn cídiǎn 侗汉词典 ("Dong-Chinese dictionary"; Běijīng 北京, Mínzú chūbǎnshè 民族出版社 2004), ISBN 7-105-06287-8.

Further reading

*Long, Y., Zheng, G., & Geary, D. N. (1998). "The Dong language in Guizhou Province, China". Summer Institute of Linguistics and the University of Texas at Arlington publications in linguistics, publication 126. Dallas, TX: Summer Institute of Linguistics. ISBN 1556710518


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