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 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 in Udon Thani province, Thailand 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 Therefore most of Vietnamese immigrants in Udon Thani came from the Central of Vietnam, the Vietnamese spoken in Udon thani should be Central dialect Findings There are tones 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” Others tone can be pronounced as the same in Vietnam Nasal influences on tone “Ngã” (A) “Ngã” with others (B) “Ngã” with Nasal 400- 400- 300- 300- 200- 100- “rõ” “ngữ” “rỗi” 200- “dưỡng” “nhiễm” “nhẫn” 100- Voiceless Stop influences on tone “Sắc” (A) “Sắc” with others 400- 400- 300- 200- 100- (B) “Sắc” with Voiceless stop 300- “có” “đến” “miếng” 200- 100- “chất” “lắp” “óc” Voiceless Stop influences on tone “Nặng” (A) “Nặng” with others (B) “Nặng” with Voiceless stop 400- 400- 300- 300- 200- 200- 100- “lạo xạo” “phụ” “đội” 100- “mặt” “dục” “lập” By comparison with the works of “Đoàn Thiện Thuật” and “Hoàng Thị Châu” The comparison of tone “Ngã” Vnm in Udon Thani Hanoi dialect 400- 400- (A) (A) (B) 300- 300- 200- 200- 100- 100- (B) The comparison of tone “Sắc” Vnm in Udon Thani 400- (B) Hanoi dialect (A) 400- 300- 300- 200- 200- 100- 100- (B) (A) The comparison of tone “Nặng” Vnm in Udon Thani Hanoi dialect 400- 400- 300- 300- 200- 200- (B) 100- (B) (A) 100- (A) Conclusion The Vietnamese tone spoken in Udon Thani, Thailand, has characteristic as below: there are tones as the North Vietnamese tone “Ngã”, “Sắc”, “Nặng” are the same pronunciation as in Hanoi dialect References • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Thai Burutphat, Khachatphai Immigrated Vietnamese Duang Kamol publishing, Bangkok, Thailand, 1978 Srichampa, Sophana Encyclopedia of ethnology in Thailand : Vietnam Institute of Language and Culture for rural development, Mahidol University, Thailand, 2005 Sripana, Thanyathip Viet Kieu in Thailand in Thai-Vietnamese Relationship Institute of Asia Study, Chulalongkhorn University, Thailand, 2005 English Thompson L.C., A Vietnamese reference grammar, Mon-khmer Studies XII-XIV, edited by Stephen O’Harrow, University of Hawaii, 1984-1985 Vietnamese Đoàn Thiện Thuật Ngữ âm tiếng Việt The third edition, Hanoi National University, Hanoi, Vietnam, 2004 Hoàng Thị Châu Phương ngữ học tiếng Việt Hanoi National University, Hanoi, Vietnam, 2004 Lê Quang Thiêm Nghiên cứu đối chiếu các ngôn ngữ, Hanoi National University, Hanoi, Vietnam, 2004 Nguyễn Văn Phức Ngữ âm tiếng Việt thực hành, University of Social Sciences and Humanities, National University, Hanoi, Vietnam, 2004 Trần Trí Dõi Khái quát về ngữ âm tiếng việt, Cơ sở tiếng Việt, Culture and information publishing, Hanoi, Vietnam, 2000 Vũ Văn Thi Một số vấn đề dạy ngữ âm và chữ viết tiếng Viẹt cho người nước ngoài Magazine of Langauge, number 2, Vietnam, 2004, 41-48 Thank you for your attention