An Adaptation Study of the Chinese Loanwords in the Guiqiong Language
In China,there exists a national lingua franca,Chinese,and many minority languages.In the long-term language contact,Chinese loanwords have been widely introduced into various minority languages,adapting to the development of different minority languages.This article takes the Guiqiong language used in Maibeng Township of Kangding City of Sichuan province as a case to study the various adaptations of Chinese loanwords in the Guiqiong language.The article argues that Chi-nese loanwords have entered the Guiqiong language through the means of transliteration,amalgama-tion,addition of light verbs,substitution of affixes and paraphrase as well as different strategies like direct adaptation,adjusted adaptation,and hierarchical adaptation in order to adapt to the Guiqiong language,reflecting the powerful adaptability of Chinese loanwords.The major causes of the adapta-tion of Chinese loanwords to the Guiqiong language are as follows:the long-term ethnic relationship is the social foundation of the adaptation of Chinese loanwords;the need of social development is the deep-rooted cause;the flexible vitality is its internal motive;the"gene"of the inter-language kinship is its convenient condition.Chinese loanwords express very strong adaptability in ethnic languages,an expression of the further development of the community of the Chinese nation and a development law of linguistic science that must be obeyed in the future.
Chinese loanwordsthe Guiqiong languageadaptabilitylanguage contactlanguage in-fluence
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