New book : West Bahnaric

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A Comparative West Bahnaric Dictionary

PASCALE JACQ & PAUL SIDWELL, University of Melbourne

The dictionary consolidates wordlists collected by Jacq and Sidwell
during fieldwork to the Lao PDR (1996 to 1998), plus some material from
other sources. The languages treated are Oi, Cheng, Sapuon, Talieng,
Kraseng, Nhaheun, Laveh, Loven and Alak. The listing is according to
semantic fields and includes both native vocabulary and borrowings, with
some etymological commentary.
        The introduction includes a discussion of the current linguistic
situation in the south of the Lao PDR, with maps and a listing of
languages and villages where they are  spoken. The recording and
transcription of data is discussed, and some brief remarks are made on
the phonology and grammar of the languages. A preliminary genetic
classification based upon the lexical data is also presented. A
bibliography of West Bahnaric studies completes the introduction.

ISBN 3 89586 558 3.
Languages of the World/Dictionaries 21.
Ca.  260 pages. USD 70 / DM 107 / # 37.



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