Research on Characteristic Words of Yunnan Dialect in Northern Thailand
The Yunnan dialect in northern Thailand is subjected to a kind of trans-regional languages.It has been away from its native place for more than 70 years,but it retains many core words handed down from original home,and also collects characteristic words produced by ethnic Chinese in northern Thailand in different periods due to linguistic and cultural contact and innovation.With a diachronic analysis of the synchronic distribution of the characteristic words of Yunnan dialect in northern Thailand in terms of generations,word categories,phonetics and semantic categories,as well as inheritance words,variations and innovations,it is proved that the local Yunnan people's attitude towards their ancestral dialects reflects the root of overseas Chinese dialects,and reflects that the change and development of language is completed through a long process of variation and integration.
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