Construction of the Corpus for Hua-Yi-Yi-Yu in Altaic Languages and Study on the Transcription with Chinese Characters

2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 25370494
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Linguistics
• Research Institution: Tokyo University of Foreign Studies (2015); The University of Shimane (2013-2014)
• Principal Investigator: MENG Dalai 東京外国語大学, 大学院総合国際学研究院, 研究員 (40609913)
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2016-03-31
• Keywords: アルタイ諸語 / 華夷訳語 / コーパス / 漢字音訳

Outline of Final Research Achievements

In this study, a Parallel Corpus was constructed by investigating Hua-Yi-Yi-Yu used in the transcription of Mongolian, Uyghur and Jurchen languages. The Parallel Corpus collects Hua-Yi-Yi-Yu and reflects the corresponding relations between those languages and the Chinese characters used for their transcriptions. Based on the Corpus, Chinese characters in Hua-Yi-Yi-Yu, the sounds they represent, the frequency of their appearances and the position of each character used in the transcription of a word were analyzed and identified. Furthermore, for each Chinese character, all the words for which it appeared in their transcriptions were painstakingly picked and collected into a database, and the rationales for the usage of certain Chinese characters in certain transcriptions were examined. In addition, a study was also conducted on the Chinese transcription of the Chinese-Uyghur Vocabulary Wei-Wu-Er-Guan Yi-Yu. The entire study results are summarized in a book.

Free Research Field

人文学