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The Saek Language: Glossary, Texts, and Translations Volume 41

The Saek Language: Glossary, Texts, and Translations Volume 41

Hudak, Thomas
Gedney, William

Hardcover

Series: Michigan Papers on South and Southeast Asia

General ReferenceLinguisticsGeneral Racism & Ethnic Studies

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ISBN10: 0891480730
ISBN13: 9780891480730
Publisher: U of M Center for South East Asian Studi
Published: Jan 1 1993
Pages: 989
Weight: 3.30
Height: 2.50 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.10
Language: English
Little research had been conducted on Saek, a Tai-family language spoken by the Saek people of Laos and Thailand, until the preeminent linguist William J. Gedney began his exhaustive study of it in the 1960s. Never before published, Gedney's field data on Saek are collected here, including a 550-page glossary and 450 pages of Saek oral literature presented in free translation and linear glosses. The volume concludes with two important, previously unpublished Gedney papers, Saek Final-L: Archaism or Innovation? and The Twelve Year Names in Saek.While William J. Gedney's The Saek Language offers a particularly rich vein of primary data to specialists in comparative Tai, its texts--ranging from oral histories and descriptions of Saek life to folktales--are also of value to historians, anthropologists, and folklorists. Introductions contextualize the linguistic data for more general readers.

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