A Research Overview of the Bonan Language

Jiahe Han; Chia-Jung Pan

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A Research Overview of the Bonan Language

Jiahe Han, Chia-Jung Pan

Published in International Journal of Language and Linguistics (Volume 10, Issue 6)

Received: 8 November 2022 Accepted: 30 November 2022 Published: 15 December 2022

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Abstract

Bonan language is a special kind of Mongolian language. Due to historical migration and other factors, it can roughly divide into two dialects, the Tongren dialect in Qinghai Province and Jishishan dialect in Gansu Province. Compared with other languages of the same language family, the research on the Bonan language in China started relatively late. From the perspective of longitudinal time, it can be roughly separated into three stages: the embryonic period of Bonan language research (1956-1979); the beginning stage of Bonan language research (1980-2009); since 2010, the research on the Bonan language has been developing. As a whole, the research results of the Bonan language are not very fruitful, and the progress is relatively slow compared with other Mongolian languages. From the perspective of horizontal research content, the existing research on the Bonan language mainly focuses on phonological, supplemented by lexical investigation. Phonetic indagation contains a traditional description and experimental phonetic research, which complement each other and are indispensable. Vocabulary research chiefly involves loanwords, cognate comparisons, and lexicography. And the grammar research on the Bonan language is relatively insufficient. Some studies on language contact in the Ganqing area sometimes mentioned the example of the Bonan language, but few monographs systematically analyze the grammatical phenomena of the Bonan language. Structuralism is the chief method, and typology frameworks are rarely used for research.

Published in	International Journal of Language and Linguistics (Volume 10, Issue 6)
DOI	10.11648/j.ijll.20221006.13
Page(s)	327-333
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Bonan Language, Mongolian Language Family, Typology

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Jiahe Han

School of Chinese Language and Literature, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China
Chia-Jung Pan

Center for Linguistic Sciences, Beijing Normal University, Zhuhai, China

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