Tangut as a West Gyalrongic language

Lai, Yunfan; Gong, Xun; Gates, Jesse P.; Jacques, Guillaume

doi:10.1515/flih-2020-0006

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“…1 Eight Gyalrongic languages are mainly used in this paper. Five East Gyalrongic languages/varieties: Cogtse Situ (from Lin 2016 and Lin You-Jing's unpublished field notes), Bragbar Situ (from Zhang 2016, Zhang 2020 and Zhang Shuya's unpublished field notes), Japhug (from Jacques 2015a), Zbu (from Gong 2018a) and Tshobdun (from Sun & Blogros 2019); three West Gyalrongic languages, Siyuewu Khroskyabs (hereafter "Khroskyabs", from my own field notes), Geshiza (from Honkasalo 2019) and the now extinct Tangut (Lai et al 2020, Li 1997).…”

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On plosive-nasal correspondences and alternations in Gyalrongic and their possible solutions

Lai

2023

Cah. Linguist. Asie Orient.

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Gyalrongic languages exhibit a series of non-trivial nasal-plosive (or approximant) correspondences, which so far lack an explanation. Some nasal consonants, mainly found in West Gyalrongic languages, correspond to plosives or approximants in their East Gyalrongic cognates. Long considered irregular, these correspondences have never been studied with the comparative method. This paper tackles these seeming correspondences and makes the first attempt to reconstruct them. I propose a series of voiceless nasals to account for their modern reflexes with various articulation manners, and analyse the plausibility of this reconstruction. I discuss the forms in question vis-à-vis their cognates in other Sino-Tibetan languages that exhibit a nasal. I also compare alternative solutions with the voiceless nasal hypothesis.

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On plosive-nasal correspondences and alternations in Gyalrongic and their possible solutions

Lai

2023

Cah. Linguist. Asie Orient.

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“…Rgyalrongic languages are spoken in the Dkarmdzes and Rngaba districts of Western Sichuan, China (see Figure 3). They can be divided into two subbranches, Core Rgyalrong (Situ, Japhug, Tshobdun and Zbu) and West Rgyalrongic (Stau, Khroskyabs and the ancient language Tangut, Lai et al 2020).…”

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Sichuan Peppercorn and the Birth of Numbing Spices in East Asia

Jacques

Guedes

2023

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Sichuan peppercorn Zanthoxylum sp. is an important food condiment, currently used in East Asia and South Asia. In this paper, we review genetic, archaeological, and linguistic evidence regarding the use of Zanthoxylum by ancient human populations. The evidence from these three disciplines converge to suggest that its earliest attested use dates from the mid-fourth millennium BCE, in Western Sichuan, making it one of the oldest spices in East Asia. The paper also discusses how this spice was supplemented, and even superseded, by the introduction of the American Chili Pepper (Capsicum spp.). in the seventeenth century. We further argue that differences in the biosynthesis of numbing compounds between cultivars of Zanthoxylum sp. in northern and southern Western China that are due to deep evolutionary processes may have in turn influenced culinary preferences.

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“…Unlike Tibetic languages, whose common ancestor is attested as a written language, proto-Rgyalrongic is not an attested language, and can only be reconstructed by using the comparative method. The only ancient Rgyalrongic language, Tangut, only has one term for 'yak' 5 , possibly a consequence of the migration of its speakers from North-West Sichuan into Ningxia and Shaanxi (Lai et al 2020).…”

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Yak Domestication: A Review of Linguistic, Archaeological, and Genetic Evidence

Jacques¹,

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Zhang

2021

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Yak, a species of bovid uniquely adapted to high-altitude environments, plays a critical role in the life of the inhabitants of the Tibetan Plateau and neighboring areas. There is currently no consensus on when these animals may have been domesticated. In this paper, we review the archaeological, genetic, and linguistic evidence relevant to this question, and suggest that the domestication took place following hybridization with taurine cattle from the end of the fourth millennium BCE. This study also shows that the original domesticators of yaks included not only the ancestors of the Tibetans, but also Rgyalrongic speaking people from Eastern Tibet.

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Tangut as a West Gyalrongic language

Cited by 23 publications

References 16 publications

On plosive-nasal correspondences and alternations in Gyalrongic and their possible solutions

On plosive-nasal correspondences and alternations in Gyalrongic and their possible solutions

Sichuan Peppercorn and the Birth of Numbing Spices in East Asia

Yak Domestication: A Review of Linguistic, Archaeological, and Genetic Evidence

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