Tujia people and Tujia language

Author: Luo Anyuan
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Publish Date: 2001-04-01
Features: This is a monograph on the origins of the Tujia people and the Tujia language, co-authored by four scholars. The book is divided into four parts: Origins, Phonetics, Grammar, and Vocabulary. The Origins section comprehensively synthesizes existing academic research and provides a detailed discussion on the origins of the Tujia people. The Phonetics, Grammar, and Vocabulary sections offer a meticulous analysis of the Tujia language from aspects such as phonetics, lexical and syntactic structures, everyday expressions, and classified vocabulary. The book includes nearly three thousand Tujia words (including subentries), each categorized by meaning and arranged in the order of Chinese, English, Tujia character phonetics, Tujia phonetic transcription, International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA), and a word-by-word correspondence with Chinese translations.