Red Gelao Language Of The Sino-vietnamese Border Overview Of Its Department Of The Genus

The thesis aims to synchronically make a comprehensive and systematic study of Red Gelao language in Northern Vietnam, one of Geyang branch of Kan-Tai language group in Sino-Tibetan family.Gelao is one of endangered languages, mainly distributing in Southwest of China. A survey research of Red Gelao language not only help us have a common knowledge but also help provide new clues to its affiliation. Meanwhile it's of great significance that to rescue endangerment would help Gelao people know of their own native language and protect their heritage of language and culture.So far, some researchs on the China-Vietnam border's Gelao language have been made by domestic and overseas scholars, but recording materials are less. The method of Synchronic description is main, the method of field survey, analytic approach and comparative method are subsidiary. First of all, we collected datas by field survey method and sociolinguistics method. secondly, describe and analyze the voice, vocabulary and grammar. Thirdly, compared to the other languages, determine the dialect attribution of the China-Vietnam border's Red Gelao language.The body of this thesis constitutes of five chapters.Chapter one is an introduction of situation of Gelao ethnic group and Red Gelao language used in Northern Vietnam, literature reviews, data source and informants, and objective, content, value, and theory of this research.Chapter two is an introduction of sound system of Red Gelao in Northern Vietnam, which includes constitution, number, and feature of its initials, finals and tones.Chapter three makes a presentation of vocabulary of the language, including the main characters of the vocabulary, the basic types of word-building process, homophone and polysemy, synonyms. The type of the loadwords,of the Gelao language are introduced in the unit five.Chapter four is an introduction of grammar of Red Gelao in Northern Vietnam, which covers six parts, namely, word class, phrase, sentence element, sentence model, sentence type, sentence form.Chapter five is an introduction of affiliation of Red Gelao language in Northern Vietnam, mainly compared through the homologous proportion of the Common words, phonetic correspondence and the morphology.Some points are found creatively new in this thesis. Material-speaking, so far it is found to be the most comprehensive data which we collected under the guide of Professor Li Jinfang twice to Red Gelao in Northern Vietnam, including lexicons and some grammatical sentences. And content-speaking, not only have we made a comprehensive and systematical description to sound, lexicon, and grammar of Red Gelao in Northern Vietnam but also have a study of its affiliation.