Kuy , also known as Kui , Suay or Kuay ( Thai : ภาษากูย ; Khmer : ភាសាកួយ ), is a Katuic language , part of the larger Austroasiatic family spoken by the Kuy people of Southeast Asia.
13-873: Kuy is one of the Katuic languages within the Austroasiatic family . It is spoken in Isan , Thailand by about 300,000 people, in Salavan , Savannakhet and Sekong Provinces of Laos by about 64,000; and in Preah Vihear , Stung Treng and Kampong Thom Provinces of northern Cambodia by 15,500 people. Spelling variants and varieties include the following (Sidwell 2005:11). Van der haak & Woykos (1987-1988) identified two major Kui varieties in Surin and Sisaket provinces of eastern Thailand, Kuuy and Kuay . Van der haak & Woykos also identified
26-603: A single branch of the Austroasiatic family, but form separate branches. In 1966, a lexicostatistical analysis of various Austroasiatic languages in Mainland Southeast Asia was performed by Summer Institute of Linguistics linguists David Thomas and Richard Phillips. This study resulted in the recognition of two distinct new subbranches of Austroasiatic, namely Katuic and Bahnaric (Sidwell 2009). Sidwell (2005) casts doubt on Diffloth's Vieto-Katuic hypothesis, saying that
39-848: Is a member of the Katuic language group, a part of the Eastern [1] Mon–Khmer linguistic branch. Most Pacoh speakers live in central Laos and central Vietnam . Pacoh is undergoing substantial change, influenced by the Vietnamese . Alternative names are Paco, Pokoh, Bo River Van Kieu. Its dialects are Pahi (Ba-Hi). They are officially classified by the Vietnamese government as Ta'Oi (Tà Ôi) people. Vowels ( Sidwell 2003 ): Pacoh has six vowel qualities, all of which occur long and short, in modal and creaky voice . Creaky vowels are lowered compared to modally voiced vowels. There are three diphthongs which also occur modal and creaky. Unlike other languages in
52-491: Is from Van der haak & Woykos (1987-1988:129). Asterisks (placed before village names) denote ethnically mixed villages, in which ethnic Kuy reside with ethnic Lao or Khmer . All Kui Nthaw/M'ai live in mixed villages. Katuic languages The fifteen Katuic languages form a branch of the Austroasiatic languages spoken by about 1.5 million people in Southeast Asia. People who speak Katuic languages are called
65-672: Is spoken in the 4 districts of Nong Ki , Prakhon Chai , Lam Plai Mat , and Nong Hong (Sa-ing Sangmeen 1992:14). Within Nong Ki District , Kuy villages are located in the southern part of Yoei Prasat (เย้ยปราสาท) Subdistrict and in the western part of Mueang Phai (เมืองไผ่) Subdistrict (Sa-ing Sangmeen 1992:16). The following is the phonology of the Kui (Surin) language: Vowel sounds may also be distinguished using breathy voice: The following list of Kuy village locations in Sisaket Province
78-467: The Katuic peoples . Paul Sidwell is the leading specialist on the Katuic languages . He notes that Austroasiatic/Mon–Khmer languages are lexically more similar to Katuic and Bahnaric the closer they are geographically. He says this geographic similarity is independent of which branch of the family each language belongs to. He also says Katuic and Bahnaric do not have any shared innovations , so they do not form
91-577: The Ta’Oi cluster has around 200,000 speakers. Reconstructions of Proto-Katuic, or its sub-branches, include: Sidwell (2005) reconstructs the consonant inventory of proto-Katuic as follows: This is identical to reconstructions of proto-Austroasiatic except for * ʄ , which is better preserved in the Katuic languages than in other branches of Austro-Asiatic, and which Sidwell believes was also present in Proto-Mon Khmer. Paul Sidwell (2015:185–186) lists
104-424: The area, vowel phonation does not seem to have originated in the phonation of preceding consonants. Pacoh is an analytic SVO language with six parts of speech—including verbs, nouns, prepositions, adverbs, conjunctions, and sentence particles, all variably depend on each other in syntactic relationship, and five important grammatical cases—nominative, accusative, dative, locative, predicative. There are no markers for
117-495: The evidence is ambiguous, and that it is not clear where Katuic belongs in the family. Sufficient data for use in the sub-classification of the Katuic languages only become available after the opening of Laos to foreign researchers in the 1990s. The sub-classification of Katuic below was proposed by Sidwell (2005). Additionally, Sidwell (2009) analyzes the Katu branch as the most conservative subgroup of Katuic. Gehrmann (2019) proposes
130-509: The following divergent Kui varieties in Sisaket Province , Thailand. Mann & Markowski (2005) reported the following four Kuy dialects spoken in north-central Cambodia . A variety of Kui/Kuy called Nyeu ( ɲə ) is spoken in the villages of Ban Phon Kho, Ban Khamin, Ban Nonkat, Ban Phon Palat, and Ban Prasat Nyeu in Sisaket Province , Thailand. The Nyeu of Ban Phon Kho claim that their ancestors had migrated from Muang Khong, Amphoe Rasisalai , Sisaket Province. In Buriram Province , Kuy
143-467: The following classification of the Katuic languages. Ethnologue also lists Kassang (the Tariang language ), but that is a Bahnaric language (Sidwell 2003). Lê, et al. (2014:294) reports a Katu subgroup called Ba-hi living in mountainous areas of Phong Điền District , Vietnam, but Watson (1996:197) speaks of "Pacoh Pahi" as a Pacoh variety. Kuy and Bru each have around half a million speakers, while
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#1732849008553156-499: The following lexical innovations unique to Katuic that had replaced original Proto-Austroasiatic forms. Sidwell (2015:173) lists the following lexical isoglosses shared between Katuic and Bahnaric . Furthermore, Gerard Diffloth (1992) lists the words 'centipede', 'bone', 'to cough', 'to fart', 'to breathe', and 'blood' as isoglosses shared between Katuic and Vietic . A Vieto-Katuic connection has also been proposed by Alves (2005). Pacoh language The Pacoh language
169-427: The nominative and accusative cases, and word order is relied on to distinguish them instead. Jǫ:n give ʔakɨ: DAT - 1SG ʃac book maj 2SG Jǫ:n ʔakɨ: ʃac maj give DAT-1SG book 2SG "Give me your book." dɔ: NOM - 1PL pe:ŋ shoot ʔa-ceʔ ACC -bird daŋ means tumiəŋ crossbow dɔ: pe:ŋ ʔa-ceʔ daŋ tumiəŋ NOM-1PL shoot ACC-bird means crossbow "I shot
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