• DOI:10.31826/jlr-2019-171-209
Corpus ID: 212689052

Chinese loans in Old Vietnamese with a sesquisyllabic phonology

@article{Xun2019ChineseLI,
  title={Chinese loans in Old Vietnamese with a sesquisyllabic phonology},
  author={G. Xun},
  journal={Journal of Language Relationship},
  year={2019},
  volume={17},
  pages={55 - 72}
}

• G. Xun
• Published 2019
• History
• Journal of Language Relationship

While consonant clusters, taken broadly to include presyllables, are commonly hypothesized for Old Chinese, little direct evidence is available for establishing the early forms of specific words. This essay examines a hitherto overlooked source: Old Vietnamese, a language substantially attested in a single document, which writes certain words, monosyllabic in modern Vietnamese, in an orthography suggesting sesquisyllabic phonology. For a number of words loaned from Chinese, Old Vietnamese… Expand

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