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Year: 2017 Publisher: London Tauris
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"Vasco de Gama's voyage to India in the late fifteenth century opened up new economic and cultural horizons for the Portuguese. At the height of Portugal's maritime influence, it had created an oceanic state ranging from the Cape of Good Hope to China. While Portugal's direct political influence in Asia was comparative short-lived, its linguistic influence remains. Here Shihan de Silva Jayasuriya charts the influences of the Portuguese in more than fifty Asian tongues, illustrating the extent of Lusitanian links. Luso-Asian influence became engrained in eastern cultures in more subtle ways than other European empires which followed, such as the Portuguese oral traditions in folk literature, now embedded in postcolonial Asian music and song." "Through her research Jayasuriya finds that eastern peoples are often unaware of their Lusitanian legacy. She draws on first-hand knowledge and experience, linguistic analyses, existing historical accounts, unpublished manuscripts and her own musical arrangements, to demonstrate how important cultural contact was between the Portuguese and indigenous populations. The Portuguese language became the lingua franca, the bridging tongue between not one, but several colonial regimes along the coasts of Africa and Asia, from the Cape Verde Islands to Canton and the Moluccas. Jayasuriya shows us the lasting impact of the Portuguese oral traditions in folk literature, which have survived to be translated into postcolonial Asian music and song in India, Sri Lanka, Malaysia and Indonesia."--Jacket.
Oriental languages --- Foreign words and phrases --- Portuguese --- Asia --- Portugal --- Civilization --- Portuguese influences. --- Colonies --- History.
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ISBN: 3319592297 3319592289 Year: 2017 Publisher: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer,
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This book studies the Tangwang language, providing the first comprehensive grammar in English of this Chinese variety, with detailed analysis of its phonology, morphology, and syntax. This fills a gap in the literature, as previously only a few articles on this language were available. The book takes an interdisciplinary approach, examining genetic data to determine historical patterns of population migration, as well as linguistic data that focus on the influence of the Dongxiang (Santa) language as a consequence of language contact on the Silk Road. The concluding chapter argues that Tangwang has not yet become a mixed language, and that syntactic borrowing has a stronger impact than lexical borrowing on languages.
Chinese language --- Dialects --- Sino-Tibetan languages --- Oriental languages. --- Language and languages. --- Grammar, Comparative and general. --- Oriental Languages. --- Language Education. --- Grammar. --- Syntax. --- Comparative grammar --- Grammar --- Grammar, Philosophical --- Grammar, Universal --- Language and languages --- Philosophical grammar --- Linguistics --- Philology --- Foreign languages --- Languages --- Anthropology --- Communication --- Ethnology --- Information theory --- Meaning (Psychology) --- Languages, Oriental --- Grammar, Comparative --- Language and education. --- Educational linguistics --- Education --- Grammar, Comparative and general Syntax --- Syntax
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