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{{About|the language family|the languages of the East Asian geographical region|languages of East Asia}}
{{Infobox language family
| name = East Asian
| acceptance = proposed
| region = [[East Asia]], [[South Asia]], [[Southeast Asia]], [[Oceania]], [[Madagascar]]
| familycolor = Altaic
| family = Proposed language family
| child1 = [[Sino-Tibetan languages|Sino-Tibetan]]
| child2 = [[Hmong–Mien languages|Hmong–Mien]]
| child3 = [[Kra–Dai languages|Kra–Dai]]
| child4 = [[Austronesian languages|Austronesian]]
| child5 = [[Austroasiatic languages|Austroasiatic]]
| glotto = none
| ancestor = Proto-East Asian
| glottoname =
| glottorefname =
| notes =
| map =
| mapcaption =
}}
The '''East Asian languages''' are a language family (alternatively ''macrofamily'' or ''superphylum'') proposed by Stanley Starosta in 2001. The proposal has since been adopted by [[George van Driem]].


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==Classifications==
===Early proposals===
Early proposals of similar linguistic macrophyla, in narrower scope:<ref name=GvD2013 />
 
*''Austroasiatic, Austronesian, Kra-Dai, Tibeto-Burman'': Conrady (1916, 1922)<ref>Conrady, August. 1916. Eine merkw rdige Beziehung zwischen den austrischen und den indochinesischen Sprachen. ''Aufsätze zur Kultur- und Sprachgeschichte vornehmlich des Orients: Ernst Kuhn zum 70. Geburtstage am 7. Februar 1916 gewidmet von Freunden und Schülern'', 475-504. München: Verlag von M. & H. Marcus.</ref><ref>Conrady, August. 1922. ''Neue austrisch-indochinesische Parallelen''. Asia Major: Hirth Anniversary Volume, 23-66. London: Robsthan and Company.</ref> and Wulff (1934, 1942)<ref>Wulff, Kurt. 1934. ''Chinesisch und Tai: Sprachvergleichende Untersuchungen''. Copenhagen: Levin & Munksgaard.</ref><ref>Wulff, Kurt. 1942 [posthumous]. ''Über das Verhältnis des Malay-Polynesischen zum Indochinesischen''. Copenhagen: Munksgaard.</ref>
*''Austroasiatic, Austronesian, Kra-Dai, Hmong-Mien'': Paul Benedict (1942)<ref>Benedict, Paul King. 1942. Thai, Kadai and Indonesia: A new alignment in southeastern Asia. ''American Anthropologist'' 44:576-601.</ref>, Robert Blust (1996)<ref>Blust, Robert. 1996. Beyond the Austronesian homeland: The Austric hypothesis and its implications for archaeology. ''Prehistoric Settlement of the Pacific'', ed. by Ward H. Goodenough, 117-160. Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society.</ref>, Ilia Peiros (1998)<ref>Peiros, Ilia. 1998. ''Comparative Linguistics in Southeast Asia''. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics.</ref>
*''Austroasiatic, Austronesian, Kra-Dai, Tibeto-Burman, Hmong-Mien'': Stanley Starosta (2001)
 
Precursors to the East Asian proposal:
*''Austro-Tai'' (Kra-Dai and Austronesian): Gustave Schlegel (1901, 1902)<ref>Schlegel, Gustave. 1901. Review: ‘Elements of Siamese Grammar by O. Frankfurter, Ph.D., Bangkok: Printed at the American Presbyterian Mission Press, Leipzig, Karl W. Hiersemann, 1900’. ''T'oung Pao'' (Série II), II:76-87.</ref><ref>Schlegel, Gustave. 1902. Siamese Studies. ''T'oung Pao'', New Series II, Volume II, Supplement. Leiden.</ref>, Weera Ostapirat (2005)<ref>Ostapirat, Weera. 2005. Kra-Dai and Austronesian: Notes on phonological correspondences and vocabulary distribution. ''The Peopling of East Asia: Putting Together Archaeology, Linguistics and Genetics'', ed. by Laurent Sagart, Roger Blench and Alicia Sanchez-Mazas, 107-131. London: Routledge Curzon.</ref><ref>Ostapirat, Weera. 2013. ''Austro-Tai revisited''. 23rd Annual Meeting of the Southeast Asian Linguistic Society, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, 29 May 2013.</ref>
*''Austric'' (Austroasiatic and Austronesian): Wilhelm Schmidt (1906)<ref>Schmidt, Wilhelm. 1906. Die Mon-Khmer Völker, ein Bindeglied zwischen Völkern Zentral-Asiens und Austronesiens. ''Archiv für Anthropologie Neue Folge'' V:59-109.</ref>, Lawrence Reid (1994, 2005)<ref>Reid, Lawrence A. 1994. Morphological evidence for Austric. ''Oceanic Linguistics'' 33.2:323-344.</ref><ref>Reid, Lawrence A. 2005. The current status of Austric: a review and evaluation of the lexical and morphosyntactic evidence. ''The Peopling of East Asia: Putting Together Archaeology, Linguistics and Genetics'', ed. by Laurent Sagart, Roger Blench and Alicia Sanchez-Mazas, 132-160. London: Routledge Curzon, London.</ref>
 
===Starosta (2005)===
[[File:Peiligang_map.svg|thumb|right|Location of the Peiligang culture]]
Stanley Starosta's (2005)<ref>Since Starosta died on July 18, 2002, his paper, originally written in 2001, was published postumously.</ref> East Asian proposal includes a "Yangzian" branch, consisting of [[Austroasiatic languages|Austroasiatic]] and [[Hmong–Mien languages|Hmong–Mien]], to form an '''East Asian''' superphylum. However, Starosta considers his proposed Yangzian to be a direct [[sister group|sister]] of Sino-Tibetan rather than Austronesian, which is more distantly related to Sino-Tibetan as a sister of Sino-Tibetan-Yangzian. He considers Proto-East Asian to have been a [[disyllabic]] (CVCVC) language spoken from 6,500 to 6,000 BCE by [[Peiligang culture]] and [[Cishan culture]] [[millet]] farmers on the [[North China Plain]] (specifically the [[Hanshui|Han River]], [[Wei River]], and central [[Yellow River]] areas).<ref>{{cite book | given = Stanley | surname = Starosta | chapter = Proto-East Asian and the origin and dispersal of languages of east and southeast Asia and the Pacific | pages = [https://archive.org/details/peoplingeastasia00blen/page/n210 182]–197 | title = The Peopling of East Asia: Putting Together Archaeology, Linguistics and Genetics | url = https://archive.org/details/peoplingeastasia00blen | url-access = limited | editor-given1 = Laurent | editor-surname1 = Sagart | editor-given2 = Roger | editor-surname2 = Blench | editor-given3 = Alicia | editor-surname3 = Sanchez-Mazas | location = London | publisher = Routledge Curzon | year = 2005 | isbn = 978-0-415-32242-3 }}</ref>
 
*'''East Asian'''
**'''[[Austronesian languages|Austronesian]]'''
***'''[[Formosan languages|Formosan]]'''
***Extra-Formosan
****'''[[Tai–Kadai languages|Tai–Kadai]]'''
****'''[[Malayo-Polynesian languages|Malayo-Polynesian]]'''
**Sino-Tibetan-Yangzian
***'''[[Sino-Tibetan languages|Sino-Tibetan]]'''
***Yangzian
****'''[[Austroasiatic languages|Austroasiatic]]'''
****'''[[Hmong–Mien languages|Hmong–Mien]]'''
 
Starosta (2005) proposes the following Proto-East Asian morphological affixes, which are found in [[Proto-Tibeto-Burman]] and [[Proto-Austronesian]], as well as in some morphologically conservative Austroasiatic branches such as [[Nicobaric languages|Nicobaric]].<ref>{{cite journal | given = Lawrence A. | surname = Reid | url = https://scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu/bitstream/10125/32987/1/A39.1994.pdf | title = Morphological evidence for Austric | journal = Oceanic Linguistics | year = 1994 | volume = 33 | issue = 2 | pages = 323–344 | jstor = i285831 | doi=10.2307/3623132}}</ref>
* *m(V)- 'agent of V-ing'
* *-Vn 'patient of V-ing'
* *sV- 'instrument of V-ing'
* *n(V)- 'perfective'
 
===van Driem (2012)===
{{see also|Father Tongue hypothesis}}
The following tree of East Asian superphylum (macrofamily) was proposed by [[George van Driem]] in 2012 at the 18th Himalayan Languages Symposium, held at the [[Benares Hindu University]].<ref name=GvD2013>van Driem, George. 2013. "[http://himalayanlanguages.org/files/driem/pdfs/2013f.pdf East Asian ethnolinguistic phylogeography]", ''Bulletin of Chinese Linguistics'', 7 (1): 135-188.</ref><ref>van Driem, George. 2016. "[http://himalayanlanguages.org/files/driem/pdfs/2016g.pdf The Eastern Himalayan corridor in prehistory]", pp. 467-524, Vol. II in Elena Nikolaevna Kolpačkova, ed., Проблемы китайского и общего языкознания — ''Problems in Chinese and General Linguistics''. St. Petersburg: Izdatel’stvo Studija « NP-Print ».</ref>
 
*'''East Asian'''
**'''[[Austro-Tai languages|Austro-Tai]]'''
***'''[[Kra-Dai languages|Kradai]]'''
***'''[[Austronesian languages|Austronesian]]'''
**'''[[Austroasiatic languages|Austroasiatic]]'''
**Himalayan-Yangtzean
***'''[[Trans-Himalayan languages|Trans-Himalayan]]'''
****[[Sino-Bodic languages|Sino-Bodic]]
****[[Burmo-Qiangic languages|Burmo-Qiangic]]
****[[Sal languages|Brahmaputran]]
****[[Gongduk language|Gongduk]], etc.
****[[Kiranti languages|Kiranti]], etc.
***Yangtzean
****'''[[Hmong–Mien languages|Hmong–Mien]]'''
 
According to van Driem, the linguistic evidence for the East Asian languages matches the genetic evidence from Y-DNA [[Haplogroup O (Y-DNA)#Languages families and genes|Haplogroup O]].<ref>van Driem, George. 2018. "[http://himalayanlanguages.org/files/driem/pdfs/2018i.pdf The East Asian linguistic phylum: A reconstruction based on language and genes]", ''Journal of the Asiatic Society'', LX (4): 1-38.</ref> (Further information: [[Father Tongue hypothesis]])
 
==Distributions==
{{gallery
|lines=2
|width=225
|File:Lenguas sino-tibetanas.png|Distribution of [[Sino-Tibetan languages]]
|File:Taikadai-en.svg|Distribution of [[Tai–Kadai languages]]
|File:Austroasiatic-en.svg|Distribution of [[Austroasiatic languages]]
|File:Hmong-Mien-en.svg|Distribution of [[Hmong–Mien languages]]
|File:Chronological dispersal of Austronesian people across the Pacific (per Benton et al, 2012, adapted from Bellwood, 2011).png|Dispersal of [[Austronesian languages]]
}}
 
==Notes and references==
{{Reflist}}
 
==See also==
*[[Father Tongue hypothesis]]
*[[Classification schemes for Southeast Asian languages]]
**[[Sino-Austronesian languages]]
**[[Austric languages]]
**[[Austro-Tai languages]]
*[[Mainland Southeast Asia linguistic area]]
*[[Haplogroup O (Y-DNA)#Languages families and genes|Haplogroup O (Y-DNA)]]
*[[Languages of East Asia]]
*[[Languages of Southeast Asia]]
*[[Languages of China]]
 
==External links==
*[http://himalayanlanguages.org/team/george_van_driem/publications Papers on the East Asian languages by George van Driem]
 
{{Sino-Tibetan branches}}
{{Hmong-Mien languages}}
{{Tai-Kadai languages}}
{{Austronesian languages}}
{{Austroasiatic languages}}
{{Language families}}
{{Eurasian languages}}
 
[[Category:Proposed language families]]

Revision as of 19:28, 10 August 2020

Template:About Template:Infobox language family The East Asian languages are a language family (alternatively macrofamily or superphylum) proposed by Stanley Starosta in 2001. The proposal has since been adopted by George van Driem.

Classifications

Early proposals

Early proposals of similar linguistic macrophyla, in narrower scope:[1]

  • Austroasiatic, Austronesian, Kra-Dai, Tibeto-Burman: Conrady (1916, 1922)[2][3] and Wulff (1934, 1942)[4][5]
  • Austroasiatic, Austronesian, Kra-Dai, Hmong-Mien: Paul Benedict (1942)[6], Robert Blust (1996)[7], Ilia Peiros (1998)[8]
  • Austroasiatic, Austronesian, Kra-Dai, Tibeto-Burman, Hmong-Mien: Stanley Starosta (2001)

Precursors to the East Asian proposal:

  • Austro-Tai (Kra-Dai and Austronesian): Gustave Schlegel (1901, 1902)[9][10], Weera Ostapirat (2005)[11][12]
  • Austric (Austroasiatic and Austronesian): Wilhelm Schmidt (1906)[13], Lawrence Reid (1994, 2005)[14][15]

Starosta (2005)

Location of the Peiligang culture

Stanley Starosta's (2005)[16] East Asian proposal includes a "Yangzian" branch, consisting of Austroasiatic and Hmong–Mien, to form an East Asian superphylum. However, Starosta considers his proposed Yangzian to be a direct sister of Sino-Tibetan rather than Austronesian, which is more distantly related to Sino-Tibetan as a sister of Sino-Tibetan-Yangzian. He considers Proto-East Asian to have been a disyllabic (CVCVC) language spoken from 6,500 to 6,000 BCE by Peiligang culture and Cishan culture millet farmers on the North China Plain (specifically the Han River, Wei River, and central Yellow River areas).[17]

Starosta (2005) proposes the following Proto-East Asian morphological affixes, which are found in Proto-Tibeto-Burman and Proto-Austronesian, as well as in some morphologically conservative Austroasiatic branches such as Nicobaric.[18]

  • *m(V)- 'agent of V-ing'
  • *-Vn 'patient of V-ing'
  • *sV- 'instrument of V-ing'
  • *n(V)- 'perfective'

van Driem (2012)

Template:See also The following tree of East Asian superphylum (macrofamily) was proposed by George van Driem in 2012 at the 18th Himalayan Languages Symposium, held at the Benares Hindu University.[1][19]

According to van Driem, the linguistic evidence for the East Asian languages matches the genetic evidence from Y-DNA Haplogroup O.[20] (Further information: Father Tongue hypothesis)

Distributions

Template:Gallery

Notes and references

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 van Driem, George. 2013. "East Asian ethnolinguistic phylogeography", Bulletin of Chinese Linguistics, 7 (1): 135-188.
  2. ↑ Conrady, August. 1916. Eine merkw rdige Beziehung zwischen den austrischen und den indochinesischen Sprachen. Aufsätze zur Kultur- und Sprachgeschichte vornehmlich des Orients: Ernst Kuhn zum 70. Geburtstage am 7. Februar 1916 gewidmet von Freunden und Schülern, 475-504. München: Verlag von M. & H. Marcus.
  3. ↑ Conrady, August. 1922. Neue austrisch-indochinesische Parallelen. Asia Major: Hirth Anniversary Volume, 23-66. London: Robsthan and Company.
  4. ↑ Wulff, Kurt. 1934. Chinesisch und Tai: Sprachvergleichende Untersuchungen. Copenhagen: Levin & Munksgaard.
  5. ↑ Wulff, Kurt. 1942 [posthumous]. Über das Verhältnis des Malay-Polynesischen zum Indochinesischen. Copenhagen: Munksgaard.
  6. ↑ Benedict, Paul King. 1942. Thai, Kadai and Indonesia: A new alignment in southeastern Asia. American Anthropologist 44:576-601.
  7. ↑ Blust, Robert. 1996. Beyond the Austronesian homeland: The Austric hypothesis and its implications for archaeology. Prehistoric Settlement of the Pacific, ed. by Ward H. Goodenough, 117-160. Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society.
  8. ↑ Peiros, Ilia. 1998. Comparative Linguistics in Southeast Asia. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics.
  9. ↑ Schlegel, Gustave. 1901. Review: ‘Elements of Siamese Grammar by O. Frankfurter, Ph.D., Bangkok: Printed at the American Presbyterian Mission Press, Leipzig, Karl W. Hiersemann, 1900’. T'oung Pao (Série II), II:76-87.
  10. ↑ Schlegel, Gustave. 1902. Siamese Studies. T'oung Pao, New Series II, Volume II, Supplement. Leiden.
  11. ↑ Ostapirat, Weera. 2005. Kra-Dai and Austronesian: Notes on phonological correspondences and vocabulary distribution. The Peopling of East Asia: Putting Together Archaeology, Linguistics and Genetics, ed. by Laurent Sagart, Roger Blench and Alicia Sanchez-Mazas, 107-131. London: Routledge Curzon.
  12. ↑ Ostapirat, Weera. 2013. Austro-Tai revisited. 23rd Annual Meeting of the Southeast Asian Linguistic Society, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, 29 May 2013.
  13. ↑ Schmidt, Wilhelm. 1906. Die Mon-Khmer Völker, ein Bindeglied zwischen Völkern Zentral-Asiens und Austronesiens. Archiv für Anthropologie Neue Folge V:59-109.
  14. ↑ Reid, Lawrence A. 1994. Morphological evidence for Austric. Oceanic Linguistics 33.2:323-344.
  15. ↑ Reid, Lawrence A. 2005. The current status of Austric: a review and evaluation of the lexical and morphosyntactic evidence. The Peopling of East Asia: Putting Together Archaeology, Linguistics and Genetics, ed. by Laurent Sagart, Roger Blench and Alicia Sanchez-Mazas, 132-160. London: Routledge Curzon, London.
  16. ↑ Since Starosta died on July 18, 2002, his paper, originally written in 2001, was published postumously.
  17. ↑ Starosta, Stanley (2005). "Proto-East Asian and the origin and dispersal of languages of east and southeast Asia and the Pacific". The Peopling of East Asia: Putting Together Archaeology, Linguistics and Genetics. London: Routledge Curzon. pp. 182–197. ISBN 978-0-415-32242-3. https://archive.org/details/peoplingeastasia00blen. 
  18. ↑ Reid, Lawrence A. (1994). "Morphological evidence for Austric". Oceanic Linguistics 33 (2): 323–344. doi:10.2307/3623132. https://scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu/bitstream/10125/32987/1/A39.1994.pdf. 
  19. ↑ van Driem, George. 2016. "The Eastern Himalayan corridor in prehistory", pp. 467-524, Vol. II in Elena Nikolaevna Kolpačkova, ed., Проблемы китайского и общего языкознания — Problems in Chinese and General Linguistics. St. Petersburg: Izdatel’stvo Studija « NP-Print ».
  20. ↑ van Driem, George. 2018. "The East Asian linguistic phylum: A reconstruction based on language and genes", Journal of the Asiatic Society, LX (4): 1-38.

See also

Template:Sino-Tibetan branches Template:Hmong-Mien languages Template:Tai-Kadai languages Template:Austronesian languages Template:Austroasiatic languages Template:Language families Template:Eurasian languages

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