A proto-Kra-Dai preinitial

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Laurent Sagart, « A proto-Kra-Dai preinitial », Sino-Tibetan-Austronesian, ID : 10.58079/w91q


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The three principal subgroups of Kra-Dai are Kra (a.k.a Ge-Yang), Hlai (Hainan Island) and  Kam-Tai. While many Kra-Dai (or Tai-Kadai) languages are largely monosyllabic, in some languages main syllables are preceded by CV minor syllables ('preinitials') which correspond to the initial syllables of Austronesian words, as first noted by Li Jinfang for the Kra language Buyang, where an unusually large number of these forms can be found. A list of these, with their Austronesian cognates, was g...

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