About 47 million people in Southeast China, Taiwan and Southeast Asia speak Southern Min, a major Chinese dialect group. Yet, Southern Min itself is linguistically diversified. How did Southern Min evolve into its present forms? What is the relationship between different members in this dialect group? Southern Min: Comparative Phonology and Subgrouping attempts to provide answers to these questions from a phylogenetic perspective. Using largely first-hand data, the author offers the first phonological reconstruction of Proto-Southern-Min from which all modern dialects are assumed to...
About 47 million people in Southeast China, Taiwan and Southeast Asia speak Southern Min, a major Chinese dialect group. Yet, Southern Min itself i...
