跨喜马拉雅的藏缅语族语言研究

中国西南地区喜马拉雅南麓西起巴基斯坦,东到尼泊尔、不丹、印度、缅甸、泰国、老挝、孟加拉、越南等国家,分布着大约300多种藏缅语族语言,有的语言还跨境分布。他们与北麓中国境内的藏缅语族语言有着十分密切的亲缘关系。跨喜马拉雅的藏缅语族语言研究就是要对这一带的藏缅语族语言的种类、分布以及发生学分类的简要情况、分类的依据等进行辨析。

Tibeto-Burman Languages across the Himalayas

The branch of Tibeto-Burman languages across the southern range of the Himalayas has a close genetic relationship with the Tibeto-Burman languages along the northern range of the Himalayas in China. In 2013, I published an article titled zailun xinan minzu zoulang diqu de yuyan jiqi xiangguan wenti (Further Discussion on the Languages in Southwest Ethnic Corridor and Related Issues) in the Journal of Southwest University for Nationalities, in which I listed five cognates within different semantic categories of Tibeto-Burman languages on both sides of the Himalayas. Moreover, I followed every cognate with examples from dozens of languages on the both sides of the Himalayas. After several dozen years of investigation and research, the issues of ethnicity and language in this region have received more and more attention from international linguistic circles.