Multiple Origins of Tibetan o

Nathan Wayne Hill

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Linguistics and language evolution Indian and Buddhist Studies Linguistics and Cultural Studies

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Widespread agreement prevails that Tibetan o is the result of the merger of several distinct sounds in proto-Tibeto-Burman. Here I attempt to reconcile Matisoff and Gong’s presentations of the origins of Written Tibetan o, making fuller use ofphilological evidence than Matisoff and taking advantage of a more recent version of Old Chinese than Gong. A number of sound laws are proposed to explain the relevant vowel correspondences among Tibetan, Burmese, and Chinese.

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1992A Handbook of Old Chinese Phonology 2003Handbook of Proto-Tibeto-Burman: System and Philosophy of Sino-Tibetan Reconstruction 1975Sino-Tibetan: A conspectus 1957Grammata Serica Recensa 1999The Roots of Old Chinese 2004Tibetan-English Dictionary 1994Pharyngealization in Early Chinese 2008Reply to Matisoff on the Handbook of Proto-Tibeto-Burman: System and philosophy of Sino-Tibetan reconstruction

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