維西藏語語音史初探

Preliminary Analysis of the Phonological History of Melung Tibetan

維西藏語分布在雲南省維西傈僳族自治縣保和鎮及與其相鄰的永春鄉， 是康巴藏語之一。該地區因長期多數民族混合發展，語言情況也極複雜，本 地藏語變成了特殊土話。本文探討維西藏語語音的歷史演變與其類型，認定 該藏語在康巴藏語的迪慶香格里拉次方言中占獨立土語小組之地位。

Melung Tibetan is spoken in the eastern part of Weixi County, Diqing Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in Northern Yunnan. This paper aims to provide a sketch of the phonological history of the Melung dialect from the viewpoint of Tibetan dialectology. According to the discussion, it belongs to an independent vernacular group, i.e. the Melung subgroup of the Sems-kyi-nyila dialect group of Khams Tibetan.