The influence of final consonants on some Vietnamese tones spoken in Udon Thani province, Thailand

The influence of final consonants on some Vietnamese tones spoken in Udon Thani province, Thailand Songgot Paanchiangwong Ph.D candidate Faculty of Linguistics and Vietnamese study Univ

The influence of final consonants on some Vietnamese tones spoken in

Udon Thani province, Thailand

Songgot Paanchiangwong

Ph.D candidate Faculty of Linguistics and Vietnamese study University of Social Sciences and Humanities

Hanoi National University, Vietnam

Songgot_p@yahoo.com

Aim of this paper

To find out the dialect of Vietnamese spoken

Introduction to Udon Thani province

Introduction to Vietnamese immigrants in

Udon Thani province, Thailand

The Vietnamese immigrants call themselves as

“Việt kiều”.

Old Vietnamese immigrants “Việt kiều cũ” New Vietnamese immigrants “Việt kiều mới”

The old Vietnamese immigrants

“Việt kiều cũ”

Since 1656 – 1688

Until 1824 - 1910

The new Vietnamese immigrants

“Việt kiều mới”

During World War II

(around 1945)

Proportion of Vietnamese immigrants

in Udon Thani, Thailand

Hypothesis of this paper

immigrants in Udon Thani came from the Central of Vietnam, the Vietnamese spoken in Udon thani should be Central dialect

1 There are 6 tones.

2 Two groups of final consonants which influence on

some tones;

2.1 Nasal; / m /, / n /, / ŋ /.

2.2 Voiceless Stop; / p /, / t /, / k /.

3 Three tones are influenced by those final consonants They are:

3.1 Tone “Ngã”

3.2 Tone “Sắc”

3.3 Tone “Nặng”

4 Others tone can be pronounced as the same in

Vietnam

1 Nasal influences on tone “Ngã”

(A) “Ngã” with others

400-

“ngữ”

100-

(B) “Ngã” with Nasal

“nhiễm”

“nhẫn”

100-2 Voiceless Stop influences on tone “Sắc”

(A) “Sắc” with others

400-

“đến”

“miếng”

100-

(B) “Sắc” with Voiceless stop

“lắp”

“óc”

100-3 Voiceless Stop influences on tone “Nặng”

(A) “Nặng” with others

400-

300-

200-“lạo xạo”

100- “đội”

(B) “Nặng” with Voiceless stop

“dục”

“lập”

100-By comparison with the works of

“Đoàn Thiện Thuật”

and

“Hoàng Thị Châu”

The comparison of tone “Ngã”

Vnm in Udon Thani

(A) (B)

300-

100-

Hanoi dialect

(A) (B)

200-

100-The comparison of tone “Sắc”

Vnm in Udon Thani

400- (B) (A)

300-

100-

Hanoi dialect 400- (B) (A)

200-

100-The comparison of tone “Nặng”

Vnm in Udon Thani

400-

300-

(B) (A)

100-

Hanoi dialect

(B) (A)

The Vietnamese tone spoken in Udon Thani, Thailand, has characteristic as below:

there are 6 tones as the North Vietnamese tone “Ngã”, “Sắc”, “Nặng” are the same pronunciation as in Hanoi dialect

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