Notes on some Tai dialects of Laos and neighbouring regions》.pdfVIP

Lingua 14 ( 1965J 133- 147, c piorfh-Holland Publrshlrrp Co , Amterdam NOIto be rcproduceo 3.1 photoprmt or microfilm wtthout ~n~ttc n ptrmlsston from the pubhsher NOTES OP SOME TAI DIALECTS OF LAOS AND NEIGHBOURING REGIONS E H S SIMMOl’:D!i Fang-kuel LI has proposed the tentative zlasslficatlon of Tal dialects mto three major groups I Southwestern, 11 Central, III Northern lb HIS Southwestern group rncludes Siamese, Lao, Tal Nolr, Lu, Tal Blanc Shan. Ahorn(?) black Tal of Dten Blen Phu. Laos ILen Thao, Vlentlane, Savanrakhet, Pakse, Khong. ‘Repatriated Lao’ Xleng Khouang, Sam Nub Norti! East Thor/and 7hal N~Q. Norril Thalland I’hrae, Payao, Tak ‘) LI Fang-kuel, ‘A Tentative Classlficatlon of Tal Dialects’ In Ctrlfure 111H~sror~*, ed S.Dlamond, New York, 1960,951-59 “) Based on field notes made m North ThaIland III 195 1 and In Laos In 1954-1957 The work on Ken Thao dialect was done m London Black Tal was srudled in Wentlane with Informants from a refugee group Thai Nyg are people who have settled m the Tha Llthen district of Nakhon Phanorrl province, North Et Thalland They state that they migrated to this ared at tht tune of the Lao-Thai wars 1827-1829 ‘Repatnated Lao’ designates a group which was brought to th: author’s notlce unfortunately Just before he left Laos. They migrated to the hinter1 lnd of IMoulmein (Burma) about 1828 They returned to Laos m late 1956 and were resettled some eight kllometres East of Vlentlane Though acqulrmg Burmese as a trade language they