Woraya Som-Indra. A phonological study of the Vietnamese dialect as spoken at Najok village, Nongyat subdistrict, Muang district, Nakhornphanom province . Master's Degree(Linguistics). Mahidol University. : Mahidol University, 2003.
A phonological study of the Vietnamese dialect as spoken at Najok village, Nongyat subdistrict, Muang district, Nakhornphanom province
Abstract:
The objective of this work is to study Najok Vietnamese phonology and tocompare with other Vietnamese dialects spoken in Thailand and Vietnam. A Tagmemicframework is used for analyzing the phonological system of the Najok dialect. Thenthe similarities and the differences of those dialects are presented. The result of the study indicates on the phonemic level that there are 24consonant phonemes in Najok Vietnamese /ph, b, t, (...), th, d, c, k, x, (...), m, n,(...), (...), r, v, s, (...), z, (...), h, j, l, w / all occurring in the initialposition except /w/. The 10 consonant phonemes / b, t, c, k, m, n, (...), (...), j,w / occur in the final position. There are 11 single vowels /i, e, (+,e), (...),(+,L), (...), a, a:, u, o, (...)/ and 3 diphthongs /i(...), (...)(...), u(...)/. InVietnamese, the vowel length is not significant except for the vowels /a/ and /a:/.There are five contrastive tones : /1/ High level (44) /2/ Mid- falling (31) / 3/ Midfalling-rising (324) /4/ High-rising (45) /5/ Low- falling with final glottalization(21('(...))). There are two types of syllable : the open syllable and the closedsyllable. There are two main types of phonological words: monosyllable and disyllable. Trisyllable is very rare. There are four types of intonation : rising contour, falling contour, rising-falling contour and falling-rising contour. The Vietnamese dialects have similarities in their word and syllable structure.Still, there are some differences between Najok dialect and other Vietnamese dialectsspoken in Thailand and in Vietnam in their consonants, tones and some vocabularyusage. Therefore, in case of a dialect comparison, Najok more similar toChumchonwatsritheppradittharam and Saigon dialects more than other dialects.