2012 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

A descriptive study on unreported branches of the Wa people

Research Project

Project/Area Number	23820001
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Research Activity Start-up
Allocation Type	Single-year Grants
Research Field	Linguistics
Research Institution	Hokkaido University
Principal Investigator	YAMADA Atsushi 北海道大学, 大学院・文学研究科, 専門研究員 (20609094)
Project Period (FY)	2011 – 2012
Keywords	ワ族 / フィールド言語学 / 少数民族 / 民族言語学
Research Abstract	The aim of this study is to reveal languages of unreported branches of the Wa people in Menglian county of Yunnan province, China. We conducted some field surveys on the Wa people living in (or originated from) Menglian county. The result of these surveys, we collected primary linguistic data and socio-linguistic information about Vo and Luvia groups. Based on these data, we reported the phonological system of the Vo dialect with basic vocabularies on the Journal of Burma Studies. We also contributed the paper about the Wa orthography used in China to the Journal of Hokkaido Ethnological Society.

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