泰语民族的迁徙与现代傣、老、泰、掸诸民族的形成

泰语民族的发源地到底在哪里?或者说今天分布在中国云南和与之毗邻的东南亚中南半岛地区的现代傣、老、泰、掸诸民族是从哪里来的?这个问题一直是国际泰学界关注的焦点。本文认为,泰语民族的发祥地是在今广西、云南和越南交界一带地区,其先民是后来才辗转迁徙到今天他们居住的这一带地区并形成今天分布在中国云南和东南亚的傣、泰、老、掸诸民族的。

The Migration of Early Tai Groups and the Formation of Modern Dai, Lao, Thai and Shan Peoples

Where is the cradle of Tai-speaking people? Or where did the modern Dai, Lao, Thai and Shan peoples stretching from Yunnan to mainland Southeast Asia today come from? It is a focus the scholars in the area of Tai studies have been paying much attention to. In the last century, the scholars have, based on the materials they had respectively, conducted many explorations on the origin of these groups and contributed many different opinions on it. The author of this paper opines that the cradle of Tai-speaking people is just on the common border of today's Guangxi, Yunnan of China and northern Vietnam, and the ancestors of the Tai groups in the land they occupy today were later immigrants from their cradle and graddly became the modern Tai groups such as Dai, Lao, Thai and Shan etc.later.